Tulsa ME's Office: Crock-Pots And Broom Closets Amid Backlog

Tulsa Medical Examiner's Office makes do with Crock-Pots and broom closets

Office finds substitutes for needed equipment

Dr. Joshua Lanter points to the black Crock-Pot holding a large femur bone at the Medical Examiner's Office in Tulsa.

The Crock-Pot, the same kind available at Target, sits near a steel autopsy table in the agency's basement examination room. It's a necessary part of some autopsies to separate tissue from bone, but the state Medical Examiner's Office must do without the proper piece of medical equipment — called a boiling pot — in its Tulsa and Oklahoma City offices.

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Paper bags of evidence from murder scenes are stored on the floor in a narrow evidence closet. The anthropologist, currently trying to identify more than 130 sets of human remains, works in a converted broom closet.

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The Medical Examiner's Office has nearly 900 pending cases statewide, an improvement from the 1,300 cases backlogged in August.

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That's frightening and very sad.


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Glad I don't live there.