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Because what happened to Dexter Wade in March and what happened to Dexter Wade here today reeks to the high heavens. He said the exhumation should have happened with everyone present.īENJAMIN CRUMP: That exacerbates the reason why we have to have the Department of Justice conduct the investigation from beginning to end. MCEWEN: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family. WADE: Is that fine with the system? Is this how the system works? Is this what I'm living in? And I'm living in Mississippi, and this is what I got to deal with? That I don't even matter? Bettersten says city officials told her it was a gap in communication. Dad got Dexter into the back seat again while Mom settled Mean Megan in. At the time, Dexter Wade was in the county morgue and identified by a prescription pill bottle found in his pocket, but city officials didn't notify his mother of his death until late August after he'd been buried at this pauper's cemetery. Dexter's hair while she puked into the bushes. When Bettersten hadn't heard from him for more than a week, she reported him missing. MCEWEN: Officials say Dexter Wade was attempting to cross Interstate 55 by foot in early March and that the collision was an accident. She also wears a pale green blouse-shirt with a wide collar, white apron, dark green pants, and pumps. She is rarely seen without her yellow rubber gloves, wearing them at all times. I couldn't even see him come out the ground. Dexters Mom is a middle aged woman with a curvy figure, rather large hips, and a distinctly large rear end, a frequent source of adult humor in some episodes. Bettersten Wade said not being there when her son was removed from the grave broke her heart.īETTERSTEN WADE: I asked can I exhume my child and try to get some peace? Now y'all take that from me. But when they arrived, a group of inmates had already set his body on an open bed trailer.

MCEWEN: Yesterday, they came to an overgrown field in the shadow of the Hinds County Penal Farm to watch the exhumation of his body, which had been scheduled for 11:30. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Chanting) Justice for Dexter Wade. MICHAEL MCEWEN, BYLINE: More than 250 days after Bettersten Wade Robinson reported her son Dexter missing to the Jackson Police Department, she and other relatives wanted to give him a proper burial.

Here's Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Michael McEwen. Get this - it took nearly six months before the woman learned that her son was dead and buried in a common grave. Justice Department to investigate her son's death after an off-duty police officer's vehicle struck him.

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