Some coroners are warning that autopsies could take longer and cost taxpayers more money as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation loses one of its medical examiners.

The GBI announced in a recent letter that its crime lab in Macon will stop performing autopsies for an indefinite period of time starting Oct. 1. That’s because the medical examiner who oversees autopsies is retiring. The GBI said it’s been trying to recruit a replacement since December, but hasn’t found anybody qualified to take the job.

Nearly one-third of Georgia’s 159 counties rely on the Macon crime lab for autopsies, which are used to determine the cause of deaths deemed suspicious or unusual. The GBI said that workload will now shift to the agency’s medical examiners in metro Atlanta and the Savannah area.