Posted on 10/30/2023 8:48:29 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
JACKSON, Miss. — Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard.
The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.
It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.
Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.
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Considering the state of journalism, particularly the MSM, this is a surprisingly detailed and researched piece by the reporter.
Apparently the coverup of whatever illegal thing the cop driving the police car did or did not do took 172 days.
Bureaucracy at its finest /s Was it that the officers couldn’t GAF or did it relate to the prior issue? Kudos to the new investigator who actually did her job.
Not sure that the cop was doing anything illegal per se as much as the department was getting even with the mother for suing them over an unrelated case. Check out the article - it looks *really* bad for the Jackson PD as is.
Atuo blaming the police for the perps actions is dumb.
I read this before. It’s messed up.
I think I am on to something with my feeling that there was a coverup.
The initial story about someone getting hit was about a WOMAN and in the SAME LOCATION and at the SAME TIME. They also called it a hit-and-run and made NO MENTION of the police car being involved.
See post #8
Very sad saga of dysfunction, personal and institutional.
Some lessons: don’t walk across 6-lane interstate highways at night, especially while using legal and illegal drugs.
Don’t rely on police, etc., to handle things properly, especially in a 3rd world area. If pets are missing, go to the animal shelters yourself and look. If people are missing, go to the coroner’s office yourself.
Well whatever happened, Jackson MS is very much a chocolate city.
Yes, but it turns out the police probably knew his identity immediately by the prescription bottle with his name on it in his pocket. That is what we call a clue to his identity. Since he was known to the police, they would have had his mother’s name and address in their records.
Holy cow... a real travesty. I don’t care who you are or what your socio-economic standing is, this is just plain WRONG! Is there a Go Fund Me you know of to help mama with the burial?
I thought the piece was pretty even handed as far as covering the man’s manner of death. The purpose of the article in my opinion was to point out what happened afterwards.
I misread this as a missing 3 year old. the story was unbelievable. The part about crossing the freeway was just nuts, blaming toddler for crossing the freeway? I had to go back and see what I was missing. Reading is fundamental.
This article stated the incident happened at 0534 on the morning of Wednesday, March 8th. Dexter was supposedly hit on Sunday, March 5th. Mama said he left the house around 1930 and the article says he was killed about an hour later which would be 2030ish...
“It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway.”
And a lot of people wonder why some police departments get so little respect these days.
although technically correct, a 37 y.o. man isnt a child..
Tramatic, horrible, gross, and sick.for the family, . but the MSM being overly dramatic, as expected.
I get it.
Just pointing out the idiocy and illegally of crossing of an interstate.
The aftermath seems typical of the Memphis PD.
“Pedestrians crossing the interstate is illegal. Atuo blaming the police for the perps actions is dumb.”
It took the cops 172 days to tell the family where their loved one was.
Now it turns out they really were running a coverup from the very outset. And the death occurred on a frontage road and not on the Interstate.
I’ve sent this info to the reporter at NBC for his follow up. I hope he does. It’ll make a good story and perhaps a malicious police department can be brought to justice.
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