Request an Autopsy Report

An autopsy report from the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office includes: Cause and Manner of Death
Anatomic Diagnoses
Anatomic Description
Toxicology Results (if testing was performed)

Notes:

Digital copies of autopsy reports are not certified.

If you need to obtain a certified hard copy of an autopsy report, please call (216) 721-5610, and select option 3.

Additionally, older coroner records may not be legible due to document deterioration, handwriting, and/or scanning technology available at the time of creation.

BE ADVISED! Public records requests, are, themselves, a public record!

Per policy and Ohio Revised Code 313, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiners Office informs decedent families of such requests and will release the public record of the requests to the families, in whole, at their request.
Read our public records policy.

Read our records retention schedule.

Autopsy Report - Requester Information

First Name

Last Name

Phone Number

Cases may take several weeks from the date of death for completion. Additionally, if the information provided below is incorrect or unavailable, we may need to contact you. By law, you are not required to provide your contact information. However, this may delay completing your request if we need to reach you and are unable to.

Decedent Information

First Name

Last Name

Date of Death

City of Death

Notes

By completing this form, you are agreeing to receive the requested report (if available) in a digital PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you can download it here.

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