SWIFS comprises the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office and Criminal Investigation Laboratory. Dwyer will be the first woman to serve as director of the institute since its inception.

Dallas County will have a new chief medical examiner later this week. Dr. Jessica Dwyer, the deputy chief medical examiner, will take on that job later this week. For the first time, a woman will ...

Dallas County announced Monday that Dr. Jessica Dwyer will take over as director of the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences and chief medical examiner in November(Jim Mahoney / Staff ...

A 53-year-old man from Louisburg, Missouri, drowned while driving his moped through flooded waters near Lindley Creek, becoming the 37th fatality in MSHP Troop D for 2025.

Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, Dallas County’s former chief medical examiner, retired at the beginning of the month after nearly four decades working for the county. Days before his last as Dallas County ...

Dallas police responded to a shots-fired call inside the Dallas County Medical Examiner's office on Stemmons Freeway on Nov. 8. The call came in just before 4:30 p.m. and occurred on the second ...