It’s important to note Maryland has a really bad track record, ME wise. I seem to recall a scandal but I can’t find the specifics now.
I was dealing with an Asian John Doe found in Maryland and it was really difficult to get a hold of somebody in MD. At one point the phone number listed on their website was actually just a fax number. It was very frustrating. I was able to speak with a detective of the mp case instead who was out in Burlingame California to see if he could look into the possible match instead since he had the MP case. He looked into it and when he called me back he explained that he had to really work hard to be able to speak to someone in Maryland. he also explained how notorious their ME office was. I had no idea.
Links below show that he wasn’t joking!
May 2025
www.cbsnews.com
Sept 2024
theappeal.org
Jan 2023
www.thebanner.com
Feb 2022
www.jdsupra.com
Feb 2021
www.baltimoresun.com
Feb 2020
stateline.org
This poor John Doe was likely another one to be mismanaged.
I think there needs to be an overhaul of some kind regarding Maryland regarding their backlog and obvious mismanagement.
For now, I’m choosing to attribute incompetence to this as opposed to malice. I hope we don’t discover any evidence suggesting otherwise.
@HopeRains I really hope you hear back with some good news. I’m quite curious.
Keeping my eyes peeled
I was dealing with an Asian John Doe found in Maryland and it was really difficult to get a hold of somebody in MD. At one point the phone number listed on their website was actually just a fax number. It was very frustrating. I was able to speak with a detective of the mp case instead who was out in Burlingame California to see if he could look into the possible match instead since he had the MP case. He looked into it and when he called me back he explained that he had to really work hard to be able to speak to someone in Maryland. he also explained how notorious their ME office was. I had no idea.
Links below show that he wasn’t joking!
May 2025
Families sounded alarm years before review of autopsies under former Maryland medical examiner
WJZ Investigates is following the fallout from a bombshell audit that revealed dozens of cases where people died after police restrained them, which should have been classified as homicides.
www.cbsnews.com
Sept 2024
How Deep is the Scandal at Maryland’s Medical Examiner Office?
The state launched an investigation after the former chief medical examiner's biased testimony in the George Floyd murder trial. Now, an Appeal analysis finds major flaws in the probe's design.
Jan 2023
Victims of homicides, overdoses pile up in Maryland’s medical examiner office. A new book details the crisis.
Book: Growing number of dead bodies nearly crippled Maryland's medical examiners.
Feb 2022
Maryland’s medical examiner crisis is occurring nationwide, too | JD Supra
It’s a grim issue that too many of us would want to ignore in the best of times. But the coronavirus pandemic and its collateral harms have pushed...
Feb 2021
Maryland’s overloaded medical examiner office gets a new chief
The state has hired a new chief medical examiner more than a year after the previous leader left, in part because of the crush of cases stemming from the overdose epidemic and violence. The Marylan…
www.baltimoresun.com
Feb 2020
Maryland’s Chief Medical Examiner Resigns Over Autopsy Backlog • Stateline
Maryland’s chief medical examiner resigned abruptly amid a sizeable backlog of bodies awaiting post-mortem examinations and autopsies, a situation that had prompted the state to seek help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Dr. Victor Weedn had led Maryland’s medical examiner office...
stateline.org
This poor John Doe was likely another one to be mismanaged.
I think there needs to be an overhaul of some kind regarding Maryland regarding their backlog and obvious mismanagement.
For now, I’m choosing to attribute incompetence to this as opposed to malice. I hope we don’t discover any evidence suggesting otherwise.
@HopeRains I really hope you hear back with some good news. I’m quite curious.
Keeping my eyes peeled
