Despite the Los Angeles County coroner’s insistence that harvesting body parts hasn’t harmed investigations, internal documents show that morgue employees have raised concerns for years about procurements of tissues and organs. !”Excerpts from internal coroner department case notes on a 2008 death. (Internal document from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner)Corral, Sainz, Ortiz and Wang, who performed the infant’s autopsy, did not respond to emailed requests for comment. Mone said OneLegacy routinely provides photos, x-rays and information from its exam of the body to the coroner to aid in death investigations. An excerpt from an autopsy report by a Los Angeles County deputy medical examiner.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2020 13:52 UTC