Woman Appears Alive 13 Days After Funeral

[Serpo]

I-Team Exclusive: Woman Appears Alive 13 Days After Funeral August 22, 2013 11:58
By Walt Hunter
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The family of 50-year-old Sharolyn Jackson was overjoyed to learn that, 13 days after they held a funeral and burial, Jackson is, in fact, alive.
The services were held August 3rd after the Philadelphia Medical Examiner had signed a death certificate for Jackson and a body, thought to be hers, was laid to rest.
Then, last Friday, Jackson showed up at a Mental Health Facility.
Her family was elated, but an investigation has now been opened to determine who is buried in the grave thought to be hers.
So far, city officials say they know the body is that of an unidentified woman who was found dead from natural causes July 20th on a West Philadelphia street, her body taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
When a social worker who knows Jackson — and her son — both identified pictures of the dead woman as Ms. Jackson, the Medical Examiner’s Office signed a death certificate, allowing an undertaker to remove her body for funeral services and burial.
A representative of the Philadelphia Health Department says all proper procedures were followed by workers and, with two people, including a family member, identifying her, it was following protocol to release the body.
The representative now says city officials are expected to seek an order to exhume the unknown body so steps can be taken to identify her.
Jackson’s family saying while they are very happy to know their loved one is alive, they feel great sorrow for the family of whoever is buried at the gravesite.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/22/i-team-exclusive-woman-shows-up-alive-13-days-after-funeral/

[collector]

This is why we all need RFID chips imbedded under our skin - to prevent this horrible situation from ever happening again

[ximmy]

Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass DisasterOn any given day, there are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the United States. Every year, tens of thousands of people vanish under suspicious circumstances. Viewed over a 20-year period, the number of missing persons can be estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Due in part to sheer volume, missing persons and unidentified human remains cases are a tremendous challenge to State and local law enforcement agencies. The workload for these agencies is staggering: More than 40,000 sets of human remains that cannot be identified through conventional means are held in the evidence rooms of medical examiners throughout the country.[1] (http://www.nij.gov/journals/256/missing-persons.html#note1) But only 6,000 of these cases—15 percent—have been entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.

http://www.nij.gov/journals/256/missing-persons.html

[collector]

Obviously this rises to the level of a crisis situation - something must be done ASAP. I only hope our two distinct political parties can reach a bipartisan agreement and mandate Real ID from cradle to grave, keeping us safe from...the horrors of incomplete records

...excuse me while I puke

[midnight rambler]

Obviously this rises to the level of a crisis situation - something must be done ASAP. I only hope our two distinct political parties can reach a bipartisan agreement and mandate Real ID from cradle to grave, keeping us safe from...the horrors of incomplete records

...excuse me while I puke

Indeed, everyone needs to be relying on the state and only the state for their identity. Without the state there to authenticate one's identity from the state's master database then one is lost.