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Kenosha County medical examiner reports decline in toxicology deaths, flags 2025 rise in motor-vehicle fatalities
Summary
Kenosha County Medical Examiner Patty Malliard told the Human Services Committee on March 3 that the office documented 1,696 cases in 2025 (higher than the 1,658 registered-deeds total), reported a recent decline in toxicology deaths with a 2024 shift toward cocaine and increased alcohol involvement, and said motor-vehicle deaths rose in 2025.
Patty Malliard, the Kenosha County medical examiner, told the county Human Services Committee on March 3 that her office recorded 1,696 cases for 2025 — a higher total than the 1,658 count reported through the registrar’s deeds — because the medical examiner’s caseload includes bone finds and other cases that do not always pass through the registrar’s process.
"So there's two different numbers here," Malliard said, explaining the difference between the registrar’s count and the office’s case total. "Registered deeds is every death certificate that a Kenosha person dies here in Kenosha or a person dies in Kenosha County. Our number is higher."
Why it matters: the medical examiner’s tally is…
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