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Posted on 01/14/2024 6:43:22 AM PST by Twotone
Oregon officials contacted a family to let them know that their relative had been found dead from a drug overdose, but months later, they admitted they had made a mistake.
On Sept. 11 the family of Tyler Chase was told that he had died and the body was cremated on Oct. 1. The Multnomah County Medical Examiner's Office issued a death certificate after identifying him.
The family received the ashes of someone whom they believed was their relative.
Three months later, on Dec. 19, officials told the family that they had made a mistake and that Chase was still alive. Chase's cousin Latasha Rosales spoke to KGW-TV about the bizarre call they received. Sign up for the Blaze newsletter
"I just lost it," said Rosales. "It is so hard to believe how something like this could even happen. It just makes no sense to me."
County investigators said they contacted the family as soon as they discovered the error. They did not release the actual identify of the dead man.
"I can't even imagine how they feel," Rosales said of the man's family. "Their child, their brother, their loved one was cremated. He passed away without them even being notified.”
The medical examiner's office confirmed the story to KGW on Monday.
"Misidentification is extremely rare but has been reported in a small number of cases nationwide," said the office in a statement.
Officials said the mistake was made because the dead man had in his possession Chase's wallet, including his temporary Oregon driver's license at the time of his death, and the family had declined to identify the dead body as belonging to their relative.
"Although television often shows people identifying their loved ones at a Medical Examiner’s Office, in reality, most Medical Examiner’s Offices do not have viewing facilities," the statement continued. "Families are able to view their loved one and confirm their identity at the funeral home making the arrangements."
The office said it would update its identification methods in order to prevent a similar error in the future.
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Whoops. Kinda thinking they’ll never know just who it was they burned up and buried..
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I was wondering if the temporary ID they had had a picture. Since the guy was carrying someone else’s wallet, he was probably a criminal & they could’ve checked his identify via fingerprints.
[…most Medical Examiner’s Offices do not have viewing facilities…]
Hopefully sometime in the future technology will advance enough that an accurate likeness of the deceased could be captured and viewed anywhere or time.
It’s going to be tough for the real guy in the future with a death certificate with his name on it now floating around in the various government database systems.
Where’s Tyler?
“ Families are able to view their loved one and confirm their identity at the funeral home…”
I guess the ME’s office doesn’t have any digital cameras or internet connections.
That Oregon. That joint is wackier than Austin, Texas.
Like a moving, talking picture that doesn’t talk or move?
One was black and one was white, or
one was female and one was male.
But of course, those factors can’t really be used to distinguish one person from another.
And I suspect there is no one who will miss him either.
He “identifies” as alive, but is he..?
“So now what the hell are we supposed to do with these ashes”?
Did Tom and Huck show up too?
With so many vagrants and drug addled bums in Oregon cities it is a wonder it isn’t more frequent.
If this isn’t evidence of reincarnation, what is!
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