Franklin County Coroner

The Franklin County Coronor's office says young people accounted for a larger percentage of suicides in the first six months of 2020.  

Franklin County coroner Doctor Anahi Ortiz says fatal overdoses jumped 73% in the first half of 2020, with 437 deaths.  

The Franklin County Coroner's Office has moved into its new, upgrated home on Frank Road. 

The Franklin County Coroner's Office is reporting a spike in drug overdose deaths.  

The Franklin County Coroner's office has reported yet another surge in opioid overdose deaths. 

The Franklin County Coroner's office says nearly 600 people died from drug overdoses in 2019. 

The Franklin County Coroner's office has identified two women who were found dead in central Ohio more than two decades ago. 

The Franklin County Coroner's Office says nearly thirty people have died of drug overdoses in the past 10 days. 

Whitehall police have made an arrest after three people fatally overdosed on opioids at a Powell Avenue home earlier  this week. 

Preliminary reports from the Franklin County coroner say 254 people died of drug overdoses in the first six months of 2019, up 4 percent from the same period last year. 

The Franklin County Coroner's Office has issued a warning after a spike in drug overdose deaths. 

The Franklin County Cornor's office says  six drug overdose deaths were reported Monday, following three reported over the weekend.  

State and local authorities have released a post-mortem rendering of a man found dead in a West Broad Street parking lot in April. 

The Franklin County Coroner says the number of fatal drug overdoses during the first three months of the year are up 8 percent from the same period last year. 

The Franklin County Coroner's office is reporting another spike in drug overdose deaths. 

The Franklin County Coroner’s office says preliminary overdose death statistics for 2018 show little change from the previous year. 

The Franklin County Coroner's office has issued a warning following recent drug overdose deaths.  

The Franklin County Coroner's Office has issued an alert following a drug overdose death spike from 3 p.m. on Friday to 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.  

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has released a new image of an unidentified black woman found dead in Grove City in 1998. 

The Franklin County Coroner's office is reporting a surge in overdose deaths this week. 

The Franklin County Coroner's Office reports says a surge in overdose deaths this week. 

The Franklin County Coroner's Office today released preliminary overdose statistics for the first eight months of 2018. 

The Franklin County coroner's office has ruled the case of the woman shot and killed by an undercover Columbus police officer this year as a homicide. 

The Franklin County Coroner is reporting five overdose deaths in the past 24 hours. The deaths are on top of at least 13 others in the past week.

Franklin County officials are scheduled to break ground today on a new Forensic Science Center.