Full Coverage: The Times’ investigation into how companies that harvest body parts upend death investigations
There are 10 stories.
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The Times found a rising number of death investigations across the country were complicated or upended after transplantable body parts were taken before a coroner’s autopsy.
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How firms helped rewrite a law to make it difficult for coroners to stop them from harvesting body parts.
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The Times found dozens of cases in which autopsy investigations were hindered or delayed by the procurement of tissues or organs — something the industry claims never happens.
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Executives coached coroners on how to keep body parts harvesting records secret
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Los Angeles Times reporters found two dozen cases in which a death investigation was harmed by the procurement of body parts.
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L.A. County supervisors order an in-depth report on body part procurement in the morgue after Times investigation.
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In internal complaints, emails and other documents, pathologists, investigators and other coroner employees detailed how procurement interfered with their work.
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A company that procures body parts from the deceased in the Los Angeles County morgue will begin preserving evidence in death investigations by taking photos of bodies, the county’s chief medical examiner-coroner told the board of supervisors Tuesday.
