Sharolyn Jackson Thirteen days after her family thought they
had laid her to rest, US woman Sharolyn
Jackson has turned up alive. Jackson’s family held a service on August 3
after the Philadelphia Medical Examiner
signed her death certificate and a body.
thought to be Jackson’s, was buried. On Friday, August 16, the 50-year-old was
identified at a mental health facility, CBS
reports. “You know you feel you’re just about to get
over it, that she’s dead, then [her son]
Travis comes here with the good news that
she’s alive,” Jackson’s father Dave Minnie
said. A mystery hangs over the identity of the
buried woman, whose body was found dead
from natural causes on a West Philadelphia
street on July 20, two days after Ms
Jackson was reported missing. Both Jackson’s son and a social worker who
knew the missing woman positively
identified pictures of the deceased woman
as Ms Jackson, allowing a death certificate
to be issued and funeral arrangements to
be made.
The burial site of a woman mistakenly
identified as Sharolyn Jackson
image: CBS City officials are expected to seek an order
to exhume the unknown body so she can be
identified. While Ms Jackson’s family are delighted she
is alive, they expressed sorrow for the
family of the woman they buried.
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