" A study of Mississippi death investigations from 1981 through 1984 showed staggeringly high rates of deaths classified as “undetermined causes.” In DeSoto County, for example, the rate was 53 percent. In Benton County, it was 70 percent. The average across the country is around 3 percent. "

― Radley Balko , The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South