Utah’s chief death investigator, Cory Russo, in Salt Lake County’s medical examiner’s office. Ms. Russo is one of the few U.S. death investigators routinely collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity.Credit...Kim Raff for The New York Times
By Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times, June 1, 2023
Cory Russo, the chief death investigator in Utah, is used to asking strangers questions at the most excruciating moments of their lives. When she shows up at the scene of a suicide, a homicide or another type of unexpected death, her job is to interview the grievers about how the deceased had lived.
How old were they? What was their race? Did they have a job? Had they ever been hospitalized for psychiatric issues? How had they been feeling that morning?
Over the past couple of years, she has added new questions to the list: What was their sexual orientation? What was their gender identity?
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