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    Botched body ID leaves parents searching for five years

    Posted by Keith Loft

    12/Jan/2010

    Heartbroken British parents spent five years searching for their son despite authorities knowing he was dead.
    They have now filed a suit against New York City's Medical Examiner's Office after they were told the mishap was due to errors in body identification, The New York Post reported today.
    Richard Massey disappeared in 2002, and his body was found floating in New York's East River three months later, but his parents were not told for five years and were still searching for him.
    The ME's office did not tell Massey's family about his death until October 2008, years after the tech whiz was already buried.
    "There was a breakdown in communication between the ME and the NYPD," said James Modzelewski, lawyer for the British family.

    Full article at:
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/botched-body-id-leaves-parents-searching-for-five-years/story-e6frf7lf-1225817184657