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> "It is not a secret burial ground," she said. "In those graves are the bodies of those who went unclaimed by family when they died. These persons are either h
by autoexec 3y ago
> "It is not a secret burial ground," she said. "In those graves are the bodies of those who went unclaimed by family when they died. These persons are either homeless people, inmates from local jails who died but relatives never claimed their bodies, unidentified persons who officials were never able to connect with family, or even persons who died" whose families couldn't afford a funeral.
An investigation would be a very good idea just to make sure that none of those bodies were being dumped there by the prison or by the police. Especially since the police were lying to families about the "missing" relatives that ended up there.
- not2b 3y agoThat might be true of many of those buried there. But the story describes someone who wasn't unidentified; he was buried with his ID in his pocket and his family had been looking for him for months. At best incompetence, but given the circumstances (evidently he was killed when he was hit by an off duty cop's car) it looks suspicious, like they might have been trying to cover it up.
- shagmin 3y agoAccording to some posts I read on Reddit about this it was likely a retaliation thing after a family member of the victim was beaten to death by a fellow police officer who is now in prison.
- defrost 3y agoNPR is very much implying the "paupers grave" is being used by the police to dump "inconvenient bodies" Bettersten Wade told the anguishing story of how, months after she filed a missing persons report about her son, Dexter Wade, she was finally told that her son was dead at age 37. The police also told her that county officials had buried him in the local pauper's field, she said. Police investigators said Dexter Wade had been struck and killed by an SUV driven by an off-duty Jackson Police Department officer on Interstate 55, just hours after his mother last saw him. The police report said Wade was on foot at the time. Naturally police investigated and determined it was all an accident, neglected to inform the family, and had a bit of a red tap boo boo with the paperwork. These things happen.
- anikan_vader 3y agoCop kills someone (allegedly by accident) and then the police bury him in a pauper’s grave and don’t inform any relevant parties. >> These things happen. No, they really don’t. That’s why it has made national news.
- c22 3y agoA charitable reading of the post you're responding to would probably note some sarcasm in that quoted line.
- anikan_vader 3y agoOops! Definitely. It actually looks to have been a clever use of irony. The internet is such a hard place to be clever though, in that people tend to take things at face value.
- MathMonkeyMan 3y agoI believe defrost was being satirical.
- Sparkyte 3y agoI secondly agree with you. You can't just even pauper graveyards. That is all terrible.
- inamberclad 3y agoThese things should never happen. They only do happen in a horrendously corrupt system.
- riffic 3y agothe medical field has a corresponding term (Never event): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_event
- autoexec 3y ago
- slim 3y agounidentified persons what does this even mean ? did the person refuse to say who they are ? so the person has been tried and sentenced and put in jail and filed under a picture. so you can put anybody in jail, deny him any contact with external world and claim he's unidentified ?
- riffic 3y agothe legal system is more than willing to prosecute a John or Jane Doe
- rawling 3y ago> These persons are either homeless people, inmates from local jails who died but relatives never claimed their bodies, unidentified persons who officials were never able to connect with family, or even persons who died" whose families couldn't afford a funeral. "Inmates from local jails" and "unidentified persons" are separate categories.