Indiana ? With her father as a role model and a love of the television show “CSI,” a high school senior in Portland has become Indiana’s youngest certified death investigator.

Amanda Barnett, 18, was certified last month and is one of four deputy coroners working for her father, Jay County Coroner Mark Barnett.

“To other people it’s disgusting, but I think it’s interesting, and somebody’s got to do it,” she said.

She had to receive special permission to attend a certification class given by the Indiana State Coroners Training Board because she was only 17 when it began. She scored 97 percent on the test, submitted four case reports and attended an autopsy.

Barnett will soon graduate from high school, and she said she plans to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in the fall to become a forensic nurse examiner.