93,000 says Mexico; 90 percent from U.S. On-the-ground footage from "Gunrunners."

With no access to refrigeration and no funding for a burial, Coroner Tim Brown of Marlboro County, SC, says he made a "professional decision" to cremate the decomposing remains of a John Doe, who was later identified as athlete Michael Jordan's father. In "Post Mortem," airing Feb. 1, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and NPR examine the reality of death investigation in America.

Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. In over 1,300 counties, elected coroners, many with no medical or scientific background, are responsible for determining what happened. In "Post Mortem," correspondent Lowell Bergman examines death investigation in America, a joint investigation with ProPublica, NPR and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.

(Warning: graphic images) In this clip from "Post Mortem," experts with the National Academy of Sciences call for federal standards in death investigation and to replace all coroners with trained medical examiners. But nationwide there is a severe shortage of competent forensic pathologists to do autopsies. On Feb. 1, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and NPR examine death investigation in America.

FRONTLINE tells the dark tale of the men of Third Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry and how the war followed them home. 1/25/2011

The Washington Post's Dana Priest reports on the sprawling post-9/11 terrorism-industrial complex -- and its growing reach into the lives of ordinary Americans

There are a lot of closely guarded secrets in Afghanistan. The country's former intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh, knows most of them.

An investigation into a growing trend: the outsourcing of major airline repair work.

Three years ago, the U.S. led a new counterinsurgency effort in this Afghanistan town. But has the medicine worked?

License plate readers, like those used on the streets of Baghdad, are now being used to collect, store and analyze the movements of vehicles on the streets of Baltimore. In "Are We Safer?," the debut segment in FRONTLINE's new monthly magazine series premiering Jan. 18, The Washington Post's Dana Priest investigates the growing reach of homeland security into the lives of ordinary Americans.

In "Flying Cheaper," coming Tues., Jan. 18, FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien investigates a growing trend - the outsourcing of major airline repair work to independent maintenance operations and a pattern of questionable maintenance practices. In this clip, O'Brien examines allegations of illegal airline parts being used to service planes of major carriers.

"Honest people don't go into politics in Haiti," Police Chief Mario Andresol tells FRONTLINE in the upcoming film "Battle for Haiti," coming Jan. 11. Andresol should know -- he has survived two assassination attempts organized by politicians linked to gangs. He now fears rogue cops may be behind a recent spree of kidnappings.

Coming Jan 11. One year after the earthquake, FRONTLINE examines he uphill fight to rebuild Haiti in the face of gang violence and corruption.

In the chaos of last year's earthquake, 4,500 of Haiti's most violent criminals escaped from the National Penitentiary. In this clip from "Battle for Haiti," coming Jan. 11, FRONTLINE gains unique access to the police units trying to hunt down the escaped prisoners and follows as police and U.N. forces hunt down a gang that has been terrorizing the slum neighborhood of La Saline.

Preview some of the stories and investigations already underway...

Coming Jan 18. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11.

Digital Nation correspondent, Douglass Rushkoff, on the importance of thinking critically about what technologies are intended for.

Rushkoff explains two emerging classes of people: those who can program online environments and those who are swimming blindly in these highly designed worlds.

Douglas Rushkoff discusses the challenges facing the U.S. to maintain a military advantage when recruits aren't learning to program military technologies.

The opening scene of Facing Death, airing Nov. 23, a family is in the ICU at Mt. Sinai hospital discussing whether to take their loved one off of life support.