Dealing With The Dead: A Look Inside Garfield County’s Coroner’s Office

The Garfield County Coroner, Rob Glassmire, keeps bodies in a walk-in refrigerator his office bought used from a restaurant several years ago.

Inside, four long, metal trays are stacked like bunk beds along one of the walls. The temperature stays at a cool 38 degrees. The most bodies the coroner has housed at one time was seven.

“And that was getting close to our capacity,” Glassmire said.

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