The Los Angeles County coroner’s office is required by state law to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner and cause of all deaths that are, or seem to be, sudden, violent, unusual or deaths in which the decedent has not been seen by a physician 20 days prior to death.

The Medical Examiner Records Section addresses requests from all over the world by agencies and families for Coroner case reports. Los Angeles County maintains records of several high profile celebrity deaths that may be referenced, even a decade after the fact.

NBC Los Angeles: Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, ex-LA County coroner behind high-profile death probes, dies

Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, a Los Angeles County coroner who conducted countless death investigations for celebrities and led the coroner's office through numerous mass-causality events, has died, ...

– Full accreditation is restored to the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner (DME) from the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME), following nearly a decade under provisional…

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner is the medical examiner's office of the government of the County of Los Angeles, California. It is located at the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles.

This site is a search of Medical Examiner cases only. This is not a search of all deaths that occur in Los Angeles County. Cases where next of kin have not been notified or cases on security hold will not be displayed.