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In reply to the discussion: Who's watching Ed Schultz? Holy Crap! [View all]barbtries
(28,799 posts)54. i don't know how it is in FL
but in los angeles there is a logjam at the morgue. my daughter's body was kept for more than three days because they had to perform an autopsy. in fact we got it expedited on religious grounds, because she's jewish. even so it was 6 days before the funeral because i refused to have a funeral with an empty casket (though that offer was made).
"I started making calls, and I reached my nephew," Martin says. "He said he hadn't seen Trayvon. Then I really started getting worried. So I called the Sheriff's department to file a missing persons report. I let them know it hadn't been 24 hours, but it was unusual for Trayvon not to return home."
Three police cars soon pulled up and a detective asked Tracy for a recent picture of his son. "I had one on my phone, so I showed it to him," Tracy says, his voice tightening. "He told me he was going to show me a photo and ask if it was my son. He pulled out a photo of Trayvon's dead body. And the nightmare began."
Stunned and devastated, Tracy called Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, from whom he's been divorced for several years.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing; it just didn't seem real," recalls Fulton, her eyes filling with tears. "And finally I said, 'I need you to go and actually identify his body.' I needed to know if that was my baby, dead."
Three police cars soon pulled up and a detective asked Tracy for a recent picture of his son. "I had one on my phone, so I showed it to him," Tracy says, his voice tightening. "He told me he was going to show me a photo and ask if it was my son. He pulled out a photo of Trayvon's dead body. And the nightmare began."
Stunned and devastated, Tracy called Trayvon's mother, Sybrina Fulton, from whom he's been divorced for several years.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing; it just didn't seem real," recalls Fulton, her eyes filling with tears. "And finally I said, 'I need you to go and actually identify his body.' I needed to know if that was my baby, dead."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20581404,00.html
this one particular piece of misinformation just does not want to go away.
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Yep! And it smelled bad from the beginning. I think it's been a total cover up. n/t
RKP5637
Mar 2012
#80
Mine is Van Hollen. I see you're in MD. Who's yours? I will call VH tomorrow. :)
Liberal_Stalwart71
Mar 2012
#36
Same thing happened to our family after an accident. We were told the following morning
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#86
Thank you, barbtries. I am so, so sorry about your daughter. I cannot imagine the pain
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#90
yes, keeping him away from his family, better mean they were able to gather a lot of...
got root
Mar 2012
#41
is it possible (or normal) that they didn't have the info then, then update as info comes in?
themaguffin
Mar 2012
#7
It's starting to look more and more like a straight cover-up from the scene onwards.
ellisonz
Mar 2012
#37
As the bartender in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" said, "HE CLEANS UP REAL GOOD."
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
#48
Totally busted. Proof. Zimmerman is a liar and should be in jail. Period. And PS,
babylonsister
Mar 2012
#56
No wounds on the head, no blood anywhere, no swelling on the face, nothing the fuck at all!
Ganja Ninja
Mar 2012
#68