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 Bag Of Possible Human Remains Washes Up At Pier 14 Possible bag of bones washes ashore at #SanFrancisco's Pier 14 https://t.co/xjdFiYTN0V pic.twitter.com/QIRN0A2dE6— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) August 16, 2016 A blue bag that washed up on Pier
SF News Medical Examiner Confirms Via DNA That Body Found In Bay Was Of Missing Tech Worker It was over two months ago that the family of Dan Ha, a software engineer who disappeared in San Francisco on Halloween, announced that his body had been found floating in the waters
SF News The Bodies Keep Piling Up At San Francisco's Morgue When someone dies, it's usually nice to know why. In the City and County of San Francisco, getting an official cause of death could take years. Years! The San Francisco Examiner has a
