'Hi, Dad': California father buries wrong man

[Still Waters]

A southern California man who thought he had buried his son found out 11 days later his son was still alive, after local coroners misidentified a body.

On 6 May, a man was found dead behind a Verizon store in Fountain Valley. Frank J Kerrigan, 82, of Wildomar, said he called the coroner’s office and was told the body was that of his son, Frank M Kerrigan, 57, who suffers from mental illness and had been living on the street. 

When Kerrigan asked whether he should identify the body, a woman said – apparently incorrectly – that identification had been made through fingerprints.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/24/california-man-buries-son-wrong-man-homelessness