Welcome to the Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge for 2026! Your goal as Medical Examiner is to read murder mysteries and attach toe tags to the unfortunate victim(s). Just read the obscure General Information page and then file your death certificate. M U R M U R S from the M O R G U E :   Review previous challenges: 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

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BUREAU of VITAL STATISTICS updated MON JAN 1 2026 @ 0 am EDT
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	Linda B Kentucky	0	0	0
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	Colleen Illinois	0	0	0
	batkat West Virginia	0	0	0
	Beth M North Carolina	0	0	0
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	Terry M. Minnesota	0	0	0
	Erika Morris California	0	0	0
	Shannon The Netherlands	0	0	0
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	Dianne Lebold Ontario	0	0	0
	Karen Baroness Texas	0	0	0
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Chief Medical Examiner's journal Monday, January 1: As Rhodes left the library, Dr. Prouty, the medical examiner, came briskly into the room, his hat perched on the back of his head. He plopped his small black satchel onto a chair, rolled the butt of a dead cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, and stared coldly at his friend, Inspector Queen. "Dick Queen," he growled, "I'm getting sick and tired of being sent for just when I'm starting for home! What is it now? Ah! Another stiff. Nothing but stiffs! Well, there'll be no autopsy tonight. Is that it, there? Or are you keeping another one from me as a surprise?" Ellery Queen, writing in The Perfect Crime, 1942.

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