General Contact Information
If you are calling to request a police/incident report, a police follow-up with a specific case, or looking for a missing person, please contact the agency of jurisdiction, to have your call routed appropriately. The agency investigator assigned to the case may subsequently check the status of a pending toxicology and/or autopsy report as well.
Huntsville Police 256-722-7100 (non-emergency number)
Madison County Sheriff 256-722-7181 (non-emergency number)
Madison City Police 256-722-7190 (non-emergency number)
For Madison County Cases Only
(Including Huntsville City, Madison City, & all municipalities within the county)
If you have been notified by a police agency of a death and you are calling to claim/release the body from the coroner's morgue after said notification, please dial the admin office at 256-937-2050. You will follow the prompt to provide the information needed for release & receive a call-back from the coroner or representative. Please include the name of the funeral home and phone number of the facility to whom the decedent should be released to. If you are not the immediate next of kin of a recent coroner's case, communications will be restricted for information we may be available to release. Be advised, we only have knowledge and access to those decedents in our care. If a loved one was not a coroners case and died at a local hospital, you will need to contact them directly. Huntsville Hospital & Crestwood Hospital are our two major hospital systems.
Deaths outside of Madison County
**If your loved one was brought to Huntsville for a forensic autopsy, from a jurisdiction outside of Madison County & you are calling regarding this matter, please instead dial the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences Regional Lab at 256-539-1401 or contact your local coroner.**
Autopsy Reports for Homicides
Please follow this link to request an official autopsy report for a homicide case from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (state agency)
https://adfs.alabama.gov/labs/labs-headquarters
Internship/Training Program/Death Investigator Positions/Other Inquiries
If you submit an inquiry to our office, we will document the request and hold the resume/inquiry for 4 months. You will not usually receive an response from our office unless an opportunity exists or if we are able to accommodate a request, due to the frequent number of submissions we receive each week. While we would like to accommodate everyone or respond to each submission with updates or recommendations, it is not feasible as our resources must be placed to our primary role in death investigation. We seldom have opportunities that come available due to present staffing or fulfilling many requests due to the nature of the work we perform. Thank you for your understanding. Please contact us via email at the address listed on the bottom of this page.