The Marshall County Coroner has released the name of the man who was found deceased in a Plymouth home on Saturday, January 27th.
As previously reported, Plymouth Police, Paramedics and Firefighters were dispatched to a house on West LaPorte Street, Saturday evening. An unresponsive male subject, later identified as 50-year-old Joseph F. Dillard, was found in an upstairs bedroom. According to the news release, he was not breathing and had no pulse. Continue reading
The Center for Disease control said that Indiana is one of the three worst states for overdose fatality reports because of inconsistencies in the way coroners test and fill out death certificates. In an effort to improve that reporting, the Indiana State Department of Health’s Division of Trauma and Injury Prevention launched a toxicology pilot program that works with coroners and allows them to order either a basic or more comprehensive panel. 
