suspicious death
Death warranting investigation
A suspicious death is one where circumstances suggest possible foul play, requiring investigation to determine whether it was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide.
Coroners and police use the term when something about the scene, the victim's condition, or the timeline doesn't add up: Police are treating it as a suspicious death until the autopsy results come back.
- foul playCriminal or violent action
- murderDeliberate unlawful killing
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- coronerPublic death investigator
- investigationFormal examination of facts
homicide · unexplained · corpse · detective · forensics · poison · strangled · crime scene · crime scene tape · police investigation · cold case · victim · next of kin · witness · motive · evidence · morgue · inquest
- death investigationautopsy report, coroner's office, forensic pathologist, morgue, postmortem
suspicious deathnatural death
Death from internal causes
natural causes · peaceful death · accidental death · old age
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