Janis Carol Amatuzio (born 1950)[1] is an American forensic pathology specialist.[2][3] She has authored books and has practiced forensic science for 20 years.[4] Amatuzio is known as the "compassionate coroner".[5]
Amatuzio was born in Minnesota and is Italian American. Her father was Donald Amatuzio, a physician who died in 2006.[6]
Amatuzio trained at the University of Minnesota and the Hennepin County Medical Center before founding Midwest Forensic Pathology in Minneapolis.[7][8] She was the Medical ExaminerinAnoka County[9][10] and served as coroner in a number of counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin until 2009.[11][12]
A protégée of Amatuzio, Dr. A. Quinn Strobl, performed the autopsy of the famous singer Prince in 2016.[13]
Amatuzio has appeared on the crime TV series Deadly Women and Forensic Files.[14]
Amatuzio lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.[15]
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