Anyone dealt with autopsies in the State of California
 

Since this would be a state by state issue, only CA experiences are requested.

Chick died. Definitely will be an autopsy. There will be a toxicology report. The report won't be ready for 6 weeks.

Would the desire to cremate the body cause a delay in its release until the results of the autopsy are completed?

Im guessing it depends on the suspected cause of death.

A friend here in CA had the county coroners office involved, and had retained a private forensics pathologist (if memory serves me well). The body was released for cremation within days of the actual autopsy and well before the county coroners official cause of death was made public.

I had a cousin who died in CA, and LA coroner released the body a couple days later once they completed the autopsy. The toxicology report came a couple months later. His wife was arrested for murder within 24 hrs of the death.

Yeah, that is what I figured. I was being told the body was being held for 6 weeks, but I was pretty sure that was wrong.

questions around here seem to be getting more and more bizarre... :helpme

Body wont be held, they dont need it.

Whatever parts they do need, usually the just the brain, they just keep. They normaly only need samples of the other organs and dont keep them. They release the body quickly, they cant keep it from decomposing and they dont want to cause the family any additional grief anyway.

Lots of bodies are buried or cremated with the brain. Even Michael Jackson was buried without his brain in his head.

So now the question is who did baddog kill?

GFY is a wealth of knowledge

Did not think so.

on CSI they have the toxicology reports within 5 mins.

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Well thats because nobody wants to sit around watching that shit for 6 weeks while the real reports come in.

That is because it is a tv show. Watch The First 48 or Crime 360 on A&E.

On CSI Miami Horratio just sniffs the body to determine cause of death.