A ranked set of public documents with story power: seven direct PDFs and zero page-image viewers, all checked on legitimate archive hosts.
The official autopsy at the center of one of the 20th century’s most persistent conspiracy debates.
Watch: The report is 5 pages. Autopsy photographs and X-rays remain restricted at the National Archives, leaving the central source of controversy outside this file.
The King of Pop, a propofol drip, and the coroner’s findings behind Dr. Conrad Murray’s conviction.
Watch: DocumentCloud identifies this as the LA County coroner report, but uploader attribution was not captured during verification. Treat its provenance as “hosted copy,” not a certified original.
The assassin said the doctors killed Garfield; the period autopsy makes a remarkable medical-history case around unsterile wound probing.
Watch: This is an 1881 primary source with archaic medical terminology. Garfield was shot July 2 and died September 19; the examination is dated September 20.
Found in a hotel bathtub on Grammy weekend; the coroner ruled accidental drowning with heart disease and cocaine use contributing.
Watch: No foul play was found. The story’s pull is cultural and toxicological rather than an unresolved forensic mystery.
A nine-drug combination led by chloral hydrate, a celebrity death only months after her son’s, and an unusually detailed public record.
The case drew Congress into a national right-to-die conflict; the autopsy documented profound brain atrophy and no evidence of abuse.
Watch: The medical examiner could not determine to reasonable medical certainty what caused her 1990 collapse; opposing sides both claimed vindication.
Kanye West’s mother died one day after cosmetic surgery, leaving a consequential record about heart disease, postoperative complications, and unanswered malpractice questions.
Watch: The coroner cited coronary artery disease and complications from the November 9 procedures; breathing difficulties “may have triggered the cardiac event.”
Eight reader favorites from the Autopsyfiles.org collection. Each link opens the full report hosted on the site.