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Coroner, medical examiner. Thomas Tsunetomi Noguchi (野口 恒富, Noguchi Tsunetomi, born January 4, 1927) is the former Chief Medical Examiner - Coroner for the County of Los Angeles. Popularly known as the "coroner to the stars", Noguchi determined the cause of death in many high-profile cases in Hollywood during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
In 1990, he was passed over in favor of J. Lawrence Cogan for the position of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner. Sathyavagiswaran was appointed Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner in 1992. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' first selection, Joshua Perper of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, declined the job due to Los Angeles' high housing costs.
Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Building in 2008. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner (“DMEC”, formerly the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and Department of Coroner) was created in its present form on December 17, 1920, by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although it has existed in some form since the appointment of the ...
Abe Asher. May 9, 2023 at 7:17 PM. The state of California has reached a historic $24m settlement with the family of Edward Bronstein, who died while being restrained by state highway patrol ...
In 1977 he joined the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's and Coroner's Office. [3] In 1986 he became senior medical examiner, the third-highest medical position in the department. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He supervised deputy medical examiners and residents in forensic pathology.
A Los Angeles County coroner's investigator has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a gold chain and crucifix from around the neck of a dead man, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspect, a 34 ...
More than a month after the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced the "unexpected passing" of a deputy, medical examiner records now show he died from the effects of methamphetamine.
Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. [ a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the ...