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Surrounded by family members and holding hands with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, center right, Bettersten Wade, center, mother of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport in Raymond, Miss. Nov. 13, 2023. An independent pathologist says the deceased Mississippi man had a wallet in the front pocket of the jeans he was buried in that contained his home address. Crump says the finding came from Dr. Frank Peretti’s autopsy report. Peretti was hired to perform an autopsy after Wade’s body was exhumed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

Mississippi man had ID in his pocket when he was buried without his family’s knowledge

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Bettersten Wade, mother of Dexter Wade, a 37-year-old man who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, wipes away tears as she watches her son's body transferred to a mortuary transport, after being exhumed from a pauper's cemetery near the Hinds County Penal Farm in Raymond, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Monday he is asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities waited several months to notify the family of his death. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Officials exhume the body of a Mississippi man buried without his family’s knowledge

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press