Dexter Wade’s family’s attorneys have released the initial results of an independent autopsy on his body and revealed the extent of his injuries and decay of his body.
Wade was killed in March on a Mississippi interstate after being run over by an off-duty corporal in a Jackson police car. Authorities never notified Wade’s family or the public about his death. Instead, they secretly buried him behind a penal farm in a grave marked by a number, leaving his mother to search for him for months, according to NBC News.
Even when Wade’s mother, Bettersen Wade, contacted police and filed a missing person’s report more than a week after her son disappeared, police told her no one had been able to find him.
However, autopsy results revealed that Wade had several forms of identification on him in a wallet in his front pocket, including a state ID with his home address, his credit card, and a health insurance card, which calls authorities’ claims into question. It’s unclear whether Wade was buried in his clothes or if his clothes were returned to the family.
Reports did reveal that three days after Wade’s death, the Hinds County coroner’s office attempted to call his mother once, but Bettersten said she never received a call.
“There was a lack of communication with the missing person’s division, the coroner’s office, and accident investigation. Because of that, they were unable to find (Dexter Wade’s) family within an expeditious period of time and he was later buried once the coroner went to the Hind’s County Board of Supervisors in order to get permission to do so,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba said in his 2023 State of the City address last month.
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