Episode
Frontline: Post Mortem
Overview
A collaboration with NPR and ProPublica reveals how dysfunction, low standards, and lax oversight impacts investigations into sudden or suspicious deaths.
Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 29
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 2011-02-01
Episode context
Post Mortem is Episode 7 in Season 29 of Frontline. It aired on 2011-02-01.
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