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 News Another SF Lab Technician Arrested with Allegedly Lab-Stolen Meth Here we go again, as a this time a Medical Examiner lab analyst has been arrested with narcotics allegedly ripped off from his own lab, and as many as 2,500 cases could be tainted.
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 Dead Women In Tenderloin, Mission Might Be San Francisco's 50th and 51st Homicides For 2015 The San Francisco Police Department are investigating two separate deaths of women across the city, possibly taking SF to the second-highest number of homicides it has seen in the past five years. Details
SF News Yet Another Dead Body Found In Waters Near Alcatraz Nearly a year after a missing tech worker was found dead in San Francisco Bay, another body has been found floating in the same waters. According to a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher,
SF News Medical Examiner Identifies Woman Found Dead At Ocean Beach A San Francisco woman has been identified as the woman found dead on Ocean Beach last week, and though her cause of death is still unknown, police do not believe she was a
SF News Unidentified Woman's Body Washes Up On Ocean Beach U.S. Park Police and the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office are still working to piece together what happened after a woman's body washed up on Ocean Beach yesterday morning. According to Golden
SF News Mysterious Dead Body Fished Out Of Lake Merced Belongs To As Yet Unidentified Female Hey, remember that mysterious dead body police fished out of Lake Merced last month? Today we have a few more details on the deceased, including gender and skin color. Christopher Wirowek, speaking for
SF News Dead Body Discovered In Golden Gate Park Lake Details are still scarce after reports that the body of a deceased person was discovered in a lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park today. Recreation and Park Department spokesperson Sarah Ballard confirmed
SF News A Very Special Wednesday SFist Blotter 47-year-old Antonia Vargas was found lying dead on her porch in Richmond today. Her body was found on the "2400 block of Andrade Avenue by a colleague who normally drives her to work,
SF News SFist Blotter Even with all the nasty weather, this weekend proved to be yet another violent one in San Francisco. For sure. After five shootings took place within a 24-hour time period, two people lost
SF News UPDATE: Powell BART Station Shuts Down "Trains headed into San Francisco from the East Bay were being turned around at Montgomery Street station, and trains headed to the East Bay from the Peninsula were being turned around at 24th
