En sen aften ankommer liget af en ukendt kvinde til lighuset i en lille by i Virginia. Far og søn retsmedicinerne Austin og Tommy Tilden skal undersøge den døde krop nærmere, da liget er fundet under mystiske omstændigheder og ikke viser det mindste tegn på vold. Austin og Tommy begynder deres arbejder, men efterhånden som aftenen skrider frem, går det op for dem, at der er noget helt galt med dette lig. Der er noget HELT galt!
Politimanden Frank Bullitt er under hårdt pres. Han har fået til opgave at beskytte et hovedvidne, som er en kendt gangster, der har stjålet flere millioner fra mafiaen. Da vidnet bliver dræbt, øges presset på Bullitt, som nu også har politikerne på nakken. Bullitt har nu 24 timer til at opklare mordet, inden han selv bliver likvideret af mafiaen.
Denne sorte komedie af Peter Greenaway fra 1988 er virkelig sort og er gjort med en undertone af herlig, pirrende fryd. Hele tre kvinder af samme familie, en mor, hendes datter og hendes niece, alle med samme navn, er højst utilfredse med deres ægtemænd og drukner dem på skift. Den lokale bedemand drages hver gang modvilligt med ind i mordplanerne. Historien fortælles i tal, fra 1 til 100 – i sandhed en original og anderledes film.
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.
Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.
Dr. Megan Hunt was in a class of her own, a brilliant neurosurgeon at the top of her game. But her world is turned upside down when a devastating car accident puts an end to her time in the operating room. Megan resumes her career as a medical examiner, determined to solve the puzzle of who or what killed the victims.
Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable immortality. This long life has given Henry remarkable observation skills which impresses his new partner, Detective Jo Martinez. Each week, a new case and their budding friendship will reveal layers of Henry’s long and colorful past. Only his best friend and confidant, Abe knows Henry’s secret.
Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.
High-flying solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.
Yoshizaki Kaoruko, who had been a clinician at a university hospital, takes up a post at a medical examiner’s office after she is told by her professor to try to get experience. However, everyone from the supervising doctor Akita Shinya, director Yanagida Shuhei and assistant Yamashita Mieko are all individualistic characters. This does not bode well for the future. Meanwhile, Akita and Kaoruko are put in charge of the dead body of a popular model who fell to her death. The police consider it to be a suicide, but Akita is drawn to a subtle point .
While detectives search for clues among the living, veteran Dauphin County, PA, coroner Graham Hetrick uncovers secrets of the dead. Each episode features a stylized re-enactment of a compelling homicide case taken directly from Hetrick's files. As viewers are led through a series of twists and turns, Hetrick peels back the layers of the investigation to reveal how the murder happened and who is to blame.
