WVII Interviews Sorg About State’s Violent Death Data Collection Project
WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist for the state and a research professor at the University of Maine, about a Maine effort to gather data on violent deaths over the next five years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded almost $1 million to help pay for compiling information about the relationships between domestic abuse, homicide and suicide. The data will supplement the work of groups such as the Domestic Abuse Homicide Review Panel, which examines domestic abuse homicides to understand how the deaths can be prevented. Sorg is leading the effort with Margaret Greenwald, the recently retired chief medical examiner.