The Starke County Coroner’s office has shared its monthly statistics for the month of October 2026.
During October, the Coroner’s office responded to a total of 9 calls. 5 of those calls were found to be natural causes, with 4 calls from October still pending.
A note included with this month’s statistics has a representative from the Coroner’s Office answering a question regarding what it means for their office to have a “pending” case.
The information shared that cases are listed as “pending” while they are still under investigation, and/or while the office is waiting for testing to be completed. Once everything is completed, the case status changes from “pending” to one of the categories of cause of death.
The listed causes that a case could fall under include natural causes, suicide, drug overdose, accident/other, motor vehicle accident, homicide, and undetermined.
As of October 31st of this year, the Coroner’s Office has responded to a total of 62 calls. 51 of those calls were found to be natural causes, 2 were drug overdoses, 2 were classified as an accident/other, and 2 were classified as a motor vehicle accident.
There is one additional pending case from before October.
