A Mississippi woman has, at last, discovered the whereabouts of her son, who mysteriously disappeared in March 2023.
To her shock, it has come to light that the 37-year-old was struck and killed by a Jackson police officer’s car, and his remains were laid to rest in grave No. 672 at the Hinds County Jail’s penal farm.
When she arrived at his grave this month, Bettersten Wade said, “I’m so sorry this happened to you. But Mama didn’t know. Mama didn’t know,” as NBC reported in a recent exposé.
Wade had filed a missing person report with the same police department where the person who took the life of her son, Dexter Wade, worked.
Despite members of the force having the information about her son’s death, she was kept in the dark for 172 days about the grim truth: her son’s life was taken by one of their own, and he was quietly interred in a plot located in the back of the detention facility.
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“They had me looking for him all that time, and they knew who he was,” the mother told NBC News.
Dexter suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and was killed on March 5.
When Bettersten Wade called about her son being missing, police said no one had been able to find him.
That was not the truth.
The Jackson Police Department was aware that a Jackson police officer had fatally struck Dexter while he crossed a nearby interstate highway.
An off-duty corporal hit Dexter and called in to report the accident. Police did not give the officer a sobriety test nor check if he was under the influence of any narcotics or alcohol. He was also not cited for violating any traffic laws.
According to police records, Dexter hurt his head after being hit. He also sustained other injuries to his body. A toxicology report revealed he was under the influence, having PCP and methamphetamine in his system. However, there is no suggestion that the drugs had anything to do with him being hit.
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