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    Deaths Force Las Vegas-Area Mortuaries To Use Storage Trailers

    Jan 11, 2021

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Funeral homes and the county coroner in Las Vegas are preparing for a post-holiday spike in coronavirus deaths by adding storage space — including refrigerated trailers with special shelving — for corpses.

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    Fudenberg Leaves Coroner Office After 30 Years Of Service

    Aug 07, 2020

    After COVID-19 wreaked havoc on government budgets everywhere, Cla

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    Caring For Coroners

    Oct 15, 2019

    Mass shootings like the one that happened on October 1, 2017, can have intense emotional consequences for first responders.

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    The Growing Problem Of Heat-Related Deaths In Southern Nevada

    Oct 09, 2019

    Hot summer days are nothing new for Nevadans.  

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    Clark County Coroner Remembers Oct. 1 Mass Shooting

    Oct 01, 2018

    One year ago, a city known for its revelry and neon charm was wounded in a way that has become all too familiar in this country – a mass shooting left 58 dead and hundreds more wounded.   

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    Deaths From Summer Heat Way Up In Southern Nevada

    Jul 24, 2018

    The summer heat killed five times as many people in southern Nevada last year as it did three years earlier.

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    Coroner: Gunfire Killed All 58 Victims In Las Vegas Shooting

    Dec 22, 2017

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A coroner says all 58 victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting died of gunshot wounds.

    Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg tells The Associated Press that all the deaths were determined to be homicides.

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    Wisc. Tourist Died From Drowning, Coroner Says

    Apr 07, 2017

    Authorities in Las Vegas say a 53-year-old tourist from Wisconsin drowned before his body was found last month near Lake Mead.

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    Coroner Rules Henderson Attorney’s Death Was Not Suicide

    Apr 03, 2017

    The coroner in Las Vegas now says the death of a Henderson attorney from a lethal combination of pain pills and anti-freeze was not a suicide.

    Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg said today that new evidence prompted him to change Susan Winters' cause of death to "undetermined."

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    Coroner Rules Death Behind Grocery Store Accidental

    Jan 24, 2017

    Authorities in Las Vegas say the death of a 44-year-old man who was fatally injured when he was struck by a tractor-trailer in a grocery store loading dock was an accident.

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    Coroner: EDC Death Caused By Drugs, Heat

    Jul 29, 2016

    Medical examiners determined that a 20-year-old California woman who collapsed in a parking lot after the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas last month died from drug intoxication and high heat.

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    Coroner: Woman Suffocated In Cryotherapy Accident

    Nov 11, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a Las Vegas spa worker suffocated in a cryotherapy chamber and her death was an accident.

    The Clark County coroner's office ruled Tuesday that 24-year-old Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion died from asphyxia caused by low oxygen levels.

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    Clark County Coroner Notes Increase In Heat Related Deaths

    Aug 31, 2015

    The death of a 4-year-old boy who police say had been left unattended in a stifling hot pickup truck on a 100-degree day illustrates one danger of intense summer temperatures in Las Vegas.

    Autopsies reveal another.

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    No. 2 in Las Vegas Coroner Office Named to Top Spot

    Apr 14, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — The No. 2 administrator at the coroner's office in Las Vegas is being named to the top spot.

    Clark County Manager Don Burnette is naming Assistant Coroner John Fudenberg to replace retiring Coroner Michael Murphy later this month.

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    Clark County Coroner: A Life With Death In Las Vegas

    Apr 10, 2015

    The idea of death and dying scares many of us. No one really knows what’s to come in the hereafter—or if anything comes at all.

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    County Investigates EDC Deaths

    Jan 26, 2015
    It could take weeks before coroners determine the causes of death for two Electric Daisy Carnival fans this weekend. The Clark County Coroner’s office...
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    The Coroner's Reality Show

    Nov 14, 2011

    About 1,500 dead bodies come through Mike Murphy's office each year, from celebrity overdoses to bodies mysteriously found dried and withered in the desert.  But such is the job of the county coroner.  And it's caught the attention of TV producers: the county recently signed a reality show deal with Discovery Studios.  But Murphy says it won't be like other reality shows - he wants to use the TV public to solve unsolved cases.  So will they show corpses on TV?  And how will the coroner balance the fine line between appealing television and respect for the dead?  Mike Murphy joins us for an in-depth look at his new TV series.

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