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  • Wrong Body Handed Over for Cremation

    12/11/2003 12:43:19 PM PST · by Theodore R. · 7 replies · 181+ views
    Wrong body handed over for cremation AUSTIN (AP) — Travis County officials are investigating how the medical examiner's office accidentally released the wrong body to a funeral home, which cremated the remains. "We are very sorry this happened," Dr. Roberto Bayardo, the chief medical examiner, said in Wednesday's editions of the Austin American-Statesman. "We have to find out how this mistake occurred. I had thought we were foolproof." The mix-up occurred last week when funeral home officials went to pick up the body of Paul Williams, 38, of Cedar Park, who had been hit by a train. They were mistakenly...