SF News SF Man Identified as Dead Three Years Ago Turns Up Alive, Family Is Flabbergasted The SF Medical Examiner's Office declared a 50-year-old Tenderloin resident dead of an overdose in May 2021, sending his daughter the man’s ashes. But it turns out those were someone else’s ashes, the man was still alive, and the family is going through quite an ordeal.
SF News Two New Forms of Fentanyl, Including Tranq, Turning Up More In SF Overdoses The SF fentanyl supply is getting laced with new varieties of the drug, like the potentially five times more powerful drug fluorofentanyl, and the veterinary tranquilizer with the street name “tranq.”
SF Politics $436,000 Settlement Awarded To Ex-Medical Examiner Official Fired After Jeff Adachi Autopsy A former staffer at the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office says he was fired after refusing to omit all the cocaine business out of Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s autopsy. Today he was awarded a $436,000 settlement.
SF News SF Medical Examiner's Office Gets Its Accreditation Back After Going 18 Months Without a Major Scandal After four years of “missing” drugs, gigantic case backlogs, and some possibly shady manipulation of Jeff Adachi’s autopsy report, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office is accredited again — but only provisionally.
SF Politics Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."
SF Politics Adachi’s Family Fights Back On Autopsy With Experts Who Report He Died Of ‘Natural Causes’ One toxicologist says there was “no cocaine” in Jeff Adachi’s system, and another says his blood alcohol was the equivalent of “half a beer."
SF News SF's TV-Friendly Medical Examiner Leaving For Better Paying Job In Central Valley SF's chief medical examiner since 2015, Dr. Michael Hunter — also known for his work on a cable TV series — is leaving the job for a major pay raise in San Joaquin County.
SF News The Other Homeless Count: How Many Have Died? On December 31, 2014, longtime homeless Castro figure "Anastasia" was found dead on Market Street. A rare event it was not, but people knew Anastasia — the scarves, the coffee cups — so perhaps it
