An unbiased post-mortem is shedding new mild on the demise and burial of Dexter Wade. City and county officers have claimed Wade died with out identification on him — making it difficult to trace his members of the family.
Months after Hinds County, Mississippi, buried Dexter in a pauper’s grave, the household lastly bought phrase about his demise. Then, county officers botched exhuming Wade’s physique by doing so three hours earlier than the scheduled time.
With extra questions than solutions concerning the dealing with of Dexter Wade’s demise, his mom, Bettersten Wade, turned to Dr. Frank Peretti. The pathologist’s early findings seemingly poke holes within the story Hinds County officers and Missisissippi’s mayor are standing on.
In this week’s episode of TSR Investigates, Justin Carter shares particulars from Dr. Peretti’s preliminary report and why the household believes a cover-up is occurring.
New Autopsy Report Shows Dexter Had A Wallet In His Pocket
According to the household’s legal professional, Ben Crump, the county’s claims about lack of identification aren’t legitimate.
After Dexter Wade’s physique was exhumed, the pathologist found “a wallet in the front pocket of his jeans.” The pockets reportedly had Dexter’s “state identification card with his home address, credit card, and a health insurance card.”
Additionally, it seems that Dexter Wade suffered greater than the “severe head injuries” listed within the Hinds County coroner’s report. His left leg was amputated, and his physique appeared to have been “completely run over by the police vehicle.” Additionally, he had “multiple blunt force injuries to the skull, ribs and pelvis.”
The physique additionally had not been embalmed, which suggests it was in “an advanced state of decomposition” and was exhumed.
Meanwhile, the officer liable for hitting Dexter Wade has not been charged in connection to his demise. His demise was additionally dominated unintended, regardless of extreme head accidents. Local police additionally didn’t administer a subject sobriety take a look at or cite the motive force, At this time, his identification additionally appears to be hid from the general public.
What Mississippi City & County Officials Have Said About Dexter Wade
As beforehand reported, Wade died on March 5 after an off-duty Jackson, Mississippi, officer struck and killed him whereas he was allegedly crossing a freeway. Dexter allegedly died with out identification on him. However, Hinds County Coroner’s Office investigator LaGrand Elliott reportedly found a prescription capsule bottle in Wade’s pocket.
He contacted the prescribing physician for a household contact, then handed the knowledge to Jackson Police Department on March 9, per an NBC investigation. Days afterward March 14, Dexter Wade’s mom reported him lacking to the police. She was not informed his physique was already within the morgue.
This went on for months. Jackson Police investigators stored telling Bettersten that they had no updates on Wade. Meanwhile, they had been additionally telling the Hinds County Coroner’s Office they weren’t in a position to set up household contact. On July 14, the county moved ahead with burying Wade in a pauper’s graveyard in plot No. 672.
Earlier this month, Mississippi Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba shut down the household’s suggestion of foul play. He mentioned an inside investigation didn’t reveal any “police misconduct” or “malicious intent” within the dealing with of Dexter Wade. Instead, the mayor blamed the burial on a “lack of communication” between departments and inaccurate household contact data. NBC studies that Elliott from the coroner’s workplace reached out to Jackson Police at the least 4 occasions between March and June.
Watch the total episode beneath to see what the City of Jackson informed TSR about Dexter Wade.
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