The Death of a Man

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Kathleen was just 21 when she saw her first dead body. She now works for the county and gets about 80 bodies a year. Kathleen: "I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with the way that I was raised or how I turned out"

There are plenty of things we don't share with our mothers. Dark, sad things. Unless of course, you both speak the same dark language. Kathleen Vernon is a coroner in Albany County, Wyoming, the youngest ever, in fact. But she didn’t come to this preternatural curiosity just on her own; the business of death runs in the family.

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