Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s a saying that “dead men tell no tales.” But Thomas Noguchi, once hailed as Los ...

He performed autopsies on some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. But many don’t know the behind-the-scenes struggles the so-called coroner to the stars faced as he navigated handling celebrity deaths in ...

The coroner who performed the autopsy on Marilyn Monroe is breaking his 63-year silence to reveal he never agreed that the cause of her death was suicide and was even prohibited from probing into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was June 6th, 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy, the leading contender to become the Democratic presidential nominee, had just been ...

Anne Soon Choi is bringing the story of celebrity coroner Thomas Noguchi back into the public eye. On April 22, alumnus and award-winning historian Choi is set to publish “L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi ...

Emerging details on the examination of Marilyn Monroe's body could offer the grisly truth behind the actress's final moments. The incomplete investigation and conflicting reports from the coroner's ...

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California State University history professor Choi debuts with an enthralling biography of “coroner to the stars” Thomas Noguchi, who performed high-profile autopsies on celebrities including Marilyn ...

What do Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy and John Belushi have in common? They all had autopsies conducted by Thomas Noguchi, who in his 15 years as L.A.’s chief coroner, became known as the “coroner ...

Chilling blunders from the nation's top coroner — buried under a stone wall of silence for 35 years — let Robert Wagner skate after his wife Natalie Wood was murdered, RadarOnline.com has discovered.