Investigate EVERYTHING: Attorney Ben Crump Calls For Inquiry Into 215 Buried In Mississippi’s Pauper’s Field

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Dexter
Wade
was
the
subject
of
several
BOSSIP
posts
last
year.
He
was
run
over
and
killed
by
an
off-duty
police
officer
in
Jackson,
Mississippi
then
promptly
buried
without
his
family,
namely
his
mother

Bettersten
Wade,
being
notified.
Ms.
Wade
looked
for
her
son
for
172
days
until
she
was
finally
told
the
truth.
Let
the
Jackson
Police
Department
tell
it,
they
tried
their
best
to
identify
Dexter
and
just
couldn’t
figure
out
who
he
was.
Perhaps
they
should
have
tried
using
the
prescription
bottle
they
found
on
his
person.

In
any
event,
the
case
brought
to
light
a
bevy
of
deceased
persons,
215
of
them
to
be
exact,
that
were
buried
nameless
and
unceremoniously
at
Pauper’s
Field
and
ubiquitous
civil
rights
attorney
Ben
Crump
is
calling
for
justice
for
every
single
one
of
them
according
to
a

Jackson
Advocate
Online
article.
JAO
quoted
Crump
as
saying,
“We’re
going
to
fight
to
bring
them
the
honor,
the
dignity,
and
the
respect
and
justice
they
deserve”.

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Stories

Hinds
County
Coroner
released
a
list
of
672
people
who
were
buried
in
Pauper’s
graves
from
2008-2023
and
the
aforementioned
215
deceased
have
not
had
their
family’s
notified.
To
add
insult
to
injury,
upon
learning
of
their
loved
ones’
demise,
several
families
had
to
“buy
back”
the
bodies
from
the
state…

40-year-old
Marrio
Moore
was
left
dead
on
a
Jackson
street
wrapped
in
a
tarp
in
February
2023.
His
mother,
Mary
Moore
Glenn,
was
appalled
to
learn
that
she
would
have
to
pay
$250
in
order
to
take
custody
of
her
son,
“We
had
to
buy
him
back
from
the
state.
In
order
to
do
anything,
to
get
a
death
certificate,
we
had
to
buy
him
back
from
the
state”.

Gretchen
Hankins
of
Florence,
Mississippi
says
that
her
39-year-old
son
Jonathan
left
her
home
on
May
20,
2022
and
was
found
dead
in
the
hotel
room
on
May
23,
2023
and
she
was
never
informed.

I
didn’t
know
it
for
a
year
and
seven
months,”
she
said,
having
learned
of
his
death
from
a
chance
sighting
of
the
death
roster
featured
on
NBC
News.
“It’s
like
they
threw
him
out
like
trash,
just
like
they
did
the
others.”

We
have
VERY
low
expectations
for
the
state
of
Mississippi
but
this
is
bad
even
for
them.
Hopefully,
Crump
can
get
monetary
damages
for
this
egregious
conduct.

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