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In
October,
we
reported
on
the
tragic
and
egregious
story
of
Dexter
Wade.
His
mother,
Bettersten
Wade,
had
lost
contact
with
the
37-year-old
and
wasn’t
informed
that
he
was
killed
after
being
hit
by
a
police
car
until
several
months
after
the
fact.
Dexter
was
buried
in
an
unmarked
grave
without
his
family’s
knowledge
or
consent
shortly
after
his
killing.
Now
as
it
turns
out,
Dexter
and
his
family
weren’t
the
only
victims
of
the
cruel
negligence
that
denies
loved
ones
the
right
to
mourn
and
lay
to
rest
family
members
shortly
after
they
have
passed.
Related
Stories
Famed
civil
attorney
Ben
Crump
recently
announced
that
he’s
representing
the
families
of
two
other
deceased
people
besides
Dexter,
who
were
also
buried
without
their
families
knowing—and
in
the
same
damn
pauper’s
field,
no
less.
According
to
the
Mississippi
Clarion
Ledger,
40-year-old
Marrio
Moore
and
39-year-old
Jonathan
Hankins
were
buried
without
the
knowledge
of
their
families
in
Hinds
County
Pauper’s
Field,
the
same
burial
ground
where
Dexter
was
buried
for
172
days
before
Bettersten
had
a
clue
what
had
happened
to
him.
“People
all
across
America
are
scratching
their
heads
in
disbelief
about
what’s
happening
in
Jackson,
Mississippi,
with
this
paupers
graveyard,”
Crump
said
during
a
news
conference
Wednesday.
“It
went
from
talking
about
the
water
to
now
we’re
talking
about
the
graveyard,
what
is
going
on
in
Jackson,
Mississippi?”
Crump
was
joined
by
members
of
all
of
the
victims’
families
as
well
as
attorney
Dennis
Sweet,
who
is
also
representing
them.
Along
with
Crump
and
U.S.
Rep.
Bennie
Thompson,
Sweet
is
calling
on
the
U.S.
Department
of
Justice
to
investigate
whatever
the
hell
is
going
on
in
Jackson
that
results
in
people
being
buried
without
anyone
who
loves
them
knowing
where
or
why.
“Jackson,
we
can
do
better.
We
can
do
better,”
Sweet
said.
“You’re
going
to
hear
from
these
families,
they’re
going
to
tell
you
their
stories
…
they’re
citizens,
their
children
were
citizens.
We
can
do
better.”
The
Clarion-Ledger
reports
that
Moore,
another
Black
man,
was
killed
via
blunt
force
trauma
on
February
2
of
this
year.
According
to
his
mother,
Mary
Moore
Glenn,
it
took
eight
months
for
the
family
to
be
notified.
Glenn,
who
said
her
son
was
struck
22
times,
wrapped
up
in
a
tarp,
and
left
on
the
street,
said
after
finally
finding
out
what
happened
to
Moore,
she
had
to
pay
$250
to
get
her
son’s
death
certificate
from
Hinds
County.
Incidentally,
$250
is
the
same
amount
Bettersten
Wade
said
she
had
to
pay
the
coroner’s
office
just
to
claim
Dexter
Wade’s
body.
“We
had
to
buy
him
back
from
the
state,”
Glen
said
of
her
son.
“When
I
went
to
try
to
get
a
death
certificate
for
him
I
couldn’t
get
one
because
he
was
in
the
state’s
property
…
me
and
my
family,
we
don’t
deserve
that.”
“They
got
him
and
just
threw
him
in
a
hole
like
he
wasn’t
anybody,
like
he
wasn’t
important,”
she
continued.
Hankins’
case
is
somehow
even
more
confounding.
According
to
his
mother
Gretchen
Hankins,
he
was
first
reported
missing
in
June
2022.
It
took
until
December
4,
one
year
and
seven
months
later. Gretchen
said
she
last
saw
her
son
on
May
20,
2022.
He
was
killed
on
May
23,
2022.
From
the
Ledger:
His
body
was
found
in
a
hotel
room
in
Jackson.
This
must
have
meant
he
had
identification
on
him,
Gretchen
said,
because
you
can’t
check
into
a
hotel
room
without
an
ID.
Gretchen
said
his
body
was
identified
and
a
picture
of
Hankins
was
shown
on
TV
as
a
missing
person.
Still,
law
enforcement
did
not
reach
out
or
come
to
her
house
to
her
to
tell
her
they
had
position
of
her
son’s
body.
“How
could
they
(law
enforcement)
do
that?
What
if
someone
did
that
to
their
children?”
she
said.
Gretchen
said
she
has
been
unable
to
retrieve
a
death
certificate
for
her
son.
If
and
when
she
does,
she’ll
also
have
to
pay
that
absurd
$250
fee.
One
time
was
unjustifiably
horrible
enough.
The
fact
that
this
has
happened
at
least
three
times
that
we
know
of
is—honestly,
there’s
really
no
word
for
it.
“How
many
more?
We
need
justice.
We
need
accountability.
We
need
some
answers,”
Bettersten
shouted
during
the
news
conference.
“How
many
more?”
That’s
arguably
the
most
important
question
to
ask.
No
family
deserves
this.
No
victim
deserves
this.
So,
how
many
more
are
suffering
and
still
left
in
the
dark?
And
when
will
it
end?
