GA - Medical Examiner's Office in Georgia admits it can't find murder victim's remains, 2019

[GuyfromCanada]

The Medical Examiner's Office in Fulton County, Georgia, admits it shipped the remains of a suspected murder victim via FedEx, and now it doesn't know where they are.

Chief Medical Examiner Jan Gorniak told WSB-TV it sent the remains of Jeffrey Merriweather Jr. to an expert in St. Louis for evaluation in June.

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What a horrible situation for the family!

 

[GoBuckeyes]

The Medical Examiner's Office in Fulton County, Georgia, admits it shipped the remains of a suspected murder victim via FedEx, and now it doesn't know where they are.

Chief Medical Examiner Jan Gorniak told WSB-TV it sent the remains of Jeffrey Merriweather Jr. to an expert in St. Louis for evaluation in June.

More at Medical Examiner's Office in Georgia admits it can't find murder victim's remains

What a horrible situation for the family!

Were the remains located?

 

[Laughing]

Clickbait headline, grrrrr.

Article states:

However, the remains never made it out of state. Package tracking shows they arrived at a FedEx warehouse in Austell, but no one has seen them since, the news station reported.

Fed-Ex lost the remains. The medical examiner's office was apparently reasonable & prudent.

Glad I'm not in charge of that Fed-Ex section!

Long, long ago I worked in a tuxedo & bridal store. Now this was before the computerization of retail, before bar codes, but shipping was our biggest headache. Beat Bridezilla every time!

Shipping employees repeatedly "couldn't find" the tuxedo cartons no matter how we described them over the phone. Now these are about 4 foot tall (chest height,) the top half is bright orange and labelled RUSH WEDDING FORMALS. Couple of times a month one of us had to go to the post office, or the UPS center to point to that box on the building floor from a catwalk. You guessed it, every other week our carton was the only 4 foot tall orange box out there.

Once our regular UPS guy broke his leg, we cried because he had managed to straighten out the local UPS station!

(Gotta wonder if the medical examiner used a tuxedo carton for the remains???)

Everything should be bar coded. Should be easy to find that package! Should be able to pinpoint who screwed up....

Any updates?

RIP, Mr. Merriweather, peace & comfort to your loved ones.

 

[Laughing]

August 25, 2019, a few days after the above-linked article:

Murder victim's remains missing, after Medical Examiner's Office 'FedExes' them to lab

 

[Dylansmom08]

Wow. Is it a common practice to sent such sensitive items as remains by mail? I thought there was a chain of custody and they would have been driven to there destination by someone from the Medical Examiners office. I hope they find the remains and get him returned to his family for proper burial.

 

[Crimescenetape]

Wow. Is it a common practice to sent such sensitive items as remains by mail? I thought there was a chain of custody and they would have been driven to there destination by someone from the Medical Examiners office. I hope they find the remains and get him returned to his family for proper burial.

You would think (or hope) that in this situation, especially if an autopsy will be critical to a murder case, there is a chain of custody order that must be followed. Funeral directors take custody and drive corpses personally in the normal way of having a funeral for a loved one. It would seem to someone like me this is police evidence and has a chain of command. This is a human body and in my mind seems more like abuse of a corpse. I guess that is not the case?

 

[KidonGadol]

You would think (or hope) that in this situation, especially if an autopsy will be critical to a murder case, there is a chain of custody order that must be followed. Funeral directors take custody and drive corpses personally in the normal way of having a funeral for a loved one. It would seem to someone like me this is police evidence and has a chain of command. This is a human body and in my mind seems more like abuse of a corpse. I guess that is not the case?

You mean Chain of CUSTODY !!

 

[Crimescenetape]

You mean Chain of CUSTODY !!

Thank you for correcting me. I did write "chain of custody" in the second line. Line 4, "chain of command," is an error.

 

[KidonGadol]

Any Sipowitz (NYPDB) does BOTH chain of command and chain of custody.

Storm'n Norman does chain of Command only -- he answers to G_d.

I just work on the chain Gang and hump my steel ball around the railway line, on command.

regards, Kidon

 

[borndem]

Any Sipowitz (NYPDB) does BOTH chain of command and chain of custody.

Storm'n Norman does chain of Command only -- he answers to G_d.

I just work on the chain Gang and hump my steel ball around the railway line, on command.

regards, Kidon

Thanks for the laff!


ps - Andy Sipowitz and NYPDB dates us a bit, but it is (was) a great cop show, wasn't it?!

 

[KidonGadol]

Thanks for the laff!


ps - Andy Sipowitz and NYPDB dates us a bit, but it is (was) a great cop show, wasn't it?!

The shorts of it are still around on the internet. It is very well acted. I never watched the original. BTW Andy Sipowitz never put that ball and chain on my leg.. it was old Virgil Tibbs wot done me in .

 

[KidonGadol]

The shorts of it are still around on the internet. It is very well acted. I never watched the original. BTW Andy Sipowitz never put that ball and chain on my leg.. it was old Virgil Tibbs wot done me in .

Now y'all hear ---- this is acting _ the Chief and Virgil -