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Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found behind Mississippi jail

• MattGaiser 3y ago
  > It wasn't until August when Bettersten Wade learned her son had been hit by a police car and killed, then buried in that same cemetery. This seems worthy of an article all on its own. A cop killed someone and then hid the body? And nobody noticed anything until they found 200+ unmarked corpses behind a prison? And this story is repeated several times, i.e. cops killed a bunch of people and buried them in unmarked graves behind a prison? > since 2016, in the last eight years, we can identify 215 individuals that were buried behind that jail Oh, and this all happened in the past 8 years? Since 2016 they have buried hundreds of unmarked bodies behind a jail? This one is going to be hard for the Jackson Police to say is just indicative of a few bad officers.
  • sp332 3y ago
    A paupers' grave is not automatically nefarious. The story is that the police made no effort to find families.
    • Jimmc414 3y ago
      Maybe it's just me but having 215 unmarked graves seems a little sketchy.
      • ahazred8ta 3y ago
        They're marked by posts with numbers on them. Numbered grave markers are standard in the US for pauper's burials. NYC has https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island with over 1 million numbered graves.