by Narmeen Choudhury, WPIX
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Many unclaimed bodies buried on Hart Island in the Bronx perhaps don’t belong there or perhaps they were misplaced.
The blame according to a recent report is landing Chief Medical Examiner’s office.
One unclaimed body was accidentally cremated, when instead someone else with the same last name was supposed to be cremated.
In another situation, a body was sent to a local medical college for dissection for students. Luckily, that mistake caught in time and the body was returned to the ME’s office before any cuts were made.