buddy, that's not even scratching the surface. when rural counties are barely willing to pay the elected coroner their stipend, they're surely not going to fund a forensic pathologist ($$$!) and the staff/tools/testing to make them effective.
there are homicides that go undetected left and right, and a distressing number of forensically sophisticated criminals out there.
but everybody thinks the cops whip out some crazy CSI team for every case, and leave no stone unturned, and no test unperformed (hahaha!), so there's no motivation for anybody to try and get the funding necessary.
