A 2025 documentary about legendary Los Angeles ME Thomas T. Noguchi should perhaps do more examining of its own.

The crime/s
The murders, maybe, of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Tate, and Natalie Wood; racist score-settling in 20th-century L.A. County government; alleged theft from and desecration of corpses.

The story
Coroner to the Stars, the doc feature on the titular Noguchi directed by Ben Hethcoat and Keita Idena, won an audience award at Slamdance last year. On one level, I get it: Coroner is conventionally and competently assembled; it mentions controversial cases, and employs compelling assets to illustrate them; it's got the cooperation of Noguchi, plus fellow "name coroner" Cyril Wecht, and George Takei. There's a bittersweet ending as Noguchi, who's set to turn 100 this coming January, visits the grave of his wife while ruminating in VO that death comes for us all.