The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner was created in its present form in Boyle Heights on December 7, 1990 by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The gift shop in the offices of the L.A. County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office, adorably (or maybe weirdly) dubbed Skeletons in the Closet.
The Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner is mandated by law to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of all violent, sudden, or unusual deaths occurring within Los Angeles County, including all homicides, suicides, accidental deaths, and natural deaths where the decedent has not seen a physician within 20 days prior to death.