Family of Black Man Who Was Buried 19 Years Ago Discovers Medical Examiner Kept Some of His Remains... in a Bin

https://www.theroot.com/family-of-black-man-who-murdered-and-buried-19-years-ag-1851482329

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Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Ok, but why? No explanation in the article what-so-ever.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There are lots of stories like this and there's basically never an explanation of why. Apparently some medical examiners and funeral home owners and such are really fucking sick.

WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What a surprise. /s

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

There was a university not too far from my town where I grew up that had a mortuary school.

I'm not going to say that all people who become morticians are like this, but there was definitely a type amongst my peers who opted for that career path and they weren't people you would say, "they went to mortuary school? I never would have expected that" about.

VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

The read more button doesn't work for me but since they were removed during autopsy I guess they just got put into a container after being processed but not listed with the bits to be forwarded to the funeral home.

The article says bin but I don't think they're talking about a trash bin, probably a lidded plastic container in the correct storage area.

MikhailBoho@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What if it was kept as a trophy?

Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

What about a snack?

MikhailBoho@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What if it was kept as a trophy?

Entropywins@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

What about a snack?

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y

Why are they pointing out the man's race if racism wasn't a factor?

sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That face says it all

neo@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 2y

First, my idiot brain ignored the "Family of" at the start of the headline and got me quite confused: is this The Onion? But what's the joke? ... x_x