Quit Your Day Job
Blake and Rossi faced off against an incompetent coroner in the episode, who was elected to his post. As of 2011, nearly 1,600 counties in the United States elected or appointed coroners. A 2011 investigation by NPR, PBS "Frontline," and ProPublica analyzed some of the nation's largest medical examiner and coroner offices and found that at least 1 in 5 practitioners were not board certified in forensic pathology, but determining causes of death.