For months, Bettersten Wade called the police in Jackson, Miss., desperate for any update or sign that detectives were making progress in tracking down Dexter, her 37-year-old son who left their home one day in March and vanished. Each conversation ended in frustration. They never seemed any closer to finding him, she said. And yet, records show that investigators for the Jackson Police Department knew exactly where Dexter Wade was.
Officials in Jackson, a city of 150,000, have described Mr. Wade's burial and the long delay in informing his mother of his death as regrettable but honest mistakes, a matter of miscommunication within an overburdened police department. But Ms. Wade was not inclined to give the police the benefit of the doubt.
#Police Negligence #Miscommunication #Delayed Notification #Burial in Unmarked Grave #Independent Autopsy
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