Coroners — A Workshop Recap

Last month, our RWA chapter’s speaker was Chris Herndon, a retired deputy coroner. A lot of her talk was about cases she’d worked on, including graphic pictures, which doesn’t really lend itself to a pleasant blog post, but she did provide a lot of interesting facts.

First—if you’re writing crime fiction make sure you know whether the state you’re writing about uses Medical Examiners or Coroners. They’re not the same. Coroners are elected. Historically, coroners were tax collectors in England,...