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Table Mountain from Primrose Park, Manenberg. Manenberg was established as a ‘Coloured township’ following the 1960s & 1970s Group Areas Act forced removals from District Six and other ‘white’, formerly multi-racial, parts…

Ernie Culross of Bobbitt Memorial Chapel in San Bernardino wheels out a body to be transported for burial from the Riverside County Sheriff Coroner facility in Perris.

Pathologists and technicians examine the remains for a woman during an autopsy in the autopsy sweet. Each body brought into the Riverside County Sheriff Coroner Bureau is tagged with the individuals identification information.

Coroner Transport worker Walter Mikell, left, Riverside County Sheriff deputy Greg Mojado, and Pat Mikell assist Riverside County Sheriff deputy coroner Bob Powell while investigating the scene where a woman was struck by a vehicle along a road in…

Coroner technicians Selana McKay-Davis, left, jokes around with fellow technician Mary Jane Reed hoping that no more bodies come in during their shift. ' You need to have a sense of humor and laugh every now and then', said McKay-Davis.

After the autopsy has been completed, coroner technicians help each other wash last body of the day. The body is then put into a white body bag and stored in the refrigeration crypt.

Aimee Roberts, a coroner technician carefully puts back a 22 week old baby boy into a body bag after studying the formation ridge detail of the hands and feet. The baby died from a miscarriage possibly cuased from a drug overdose.

Riverside County Sheriff deputy coroner Rick Bogan, second from left, talks with family members while Laura Jones, grieves for her friend Evan Kaufman, who was crushed to death between to big rigs at trucking company in Corona.

Riverside County Sheriff Deputy Coroner Michael Oare gathers as much information as he can about the man who was found dead in his motel room in Hemet California.

Coroner pathologist Scott McCormick preforms an autopsy on a woman using clippers to cut the rib cage apart to examine her internal organs.