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Meet Paul

There is no greater honor than writing the last chapter of someone’s life story — and no greater responsibility than getting it right.

Paul Parker Consulting provides comprehensive, accurate, and compassionate death investigation reviews; medicolegal death investigation (MDI) training for law firms, insurance companies, law enforcement agencies, health care providers, and government agencies; Medical Examiner/Coroner (ME/C) overviews for community groups; and expert consultation for media outlets.

Paul Parker brings nearly 30 years of experience to every engagement — experience earned not from the outside looking in, but from the inside of some of the most complex medicolegal systems in the country.

He has served as Chief Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, Assistant Coroner in Clark County (Las Vegas, Nevada), Director of the Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office, and Chief Investigator at medical examiner offices in San Diego County and Maricopa County (Phoenix, Arizona). Across those roles, Paul participated in several thousand on-scene death investigations and conducted hundreds of death notifications — one of the most demanding responsibilities in the field.

Before his career in death investigation, Paul spent ten years in law enforcement. An on-duty shooting brought him face-to-face with his own mortality and, ultimately, drew him toward a lifelong commitment to the work of understanding how and why people die.

Paul has presented at the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners annual conference and appeared as a featured guest on the podcast Coroner Talk. He is the author of In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life’s Final Chapter.