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Paul Parker Consulting

Every death deserves a thorough, accurate, and compassionate investigation.

Paul Parker brings over 30 years of law enforcement and Medical Examiner death investigation experience — including four years overseeing in-custody death investigations as Executive Officer of San Diego County’s law enforcement civilian oversight board — to the families, attorneys, agencies, and communities who need answers.

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What We Offer

Family Navigation Services

When a loved one dies under circumstances that raise questions, families are left to navigate a system that was never designed to communicate with them. Paul serves as your guide.

Expert Witness & Litigation Support

Credentialed expert witness and litigation consulting in wrongful death, civil rights, and in-custody death cases — for both plaintiff and defense counsel.

Training & Education

From death notification to in-custody death investigation protocols — training grounded in operational reality, not policy theory.

Policy & Legislative Consulting

Effective death investigation reform requires someone who can speak to legislators with operational credibility. Paul has done it — and brings that experience to every engagement.

Speaking & Media

From keynote addresses to broadcast appearances, Paul brings operational authority and plain language to any audience that needs to understand how the death investigation system works — and where it fails.

Agency & Organizational Consulting

Operational audits, protocol development, and institutional guidance for law enforcement agencies and Medical Examiner/Coroner offices.

About

Over 30 Years Inside the System

Paul Parker is a death investigation professional, law enforcement veteran, published author, and civilian oversight executive with over 30 years of experience across some of the most complex medicolegal systems in the country.

He served as Chief Deputy Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, as Executive Officer of the San Diego Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board — where he oversaw in-custody and law enforcement-involved death investigations for four years — and in senior roles at Medical Examiner offices in Clark County (Nevada), Pinal County (Arizona), San Diego County, and Maricopa County (Arizona).

He is the author of In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life’s Final Chapter and the creator of Inside Death Investigation with Paul Parker on YouTube.

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Shadows

In The Shadows of Death

Writing Life’s Final Chapter · By Paul Parker

A practitioner’s memoir at the intersection of death investigation, professional culture, and personal transformation. For anyone who has ever wondered what it costs to write the last chapter of someone’s life story — and what it takes to choose to keep writing it.

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Books

  • In The Shadows of Death

  • From the Shadows of Death

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Inside Death Investigation

Public education. Systemic reform. The intersection of death investigation and the communities it serves. Published regularly on Substack.

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