🎄 On the 7th Day of Christmas: Cremated But Alive… Shanice Crews
🎄12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎 In Day 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved, I’m sharing one of the most disturbing and emotionally jarring cases I’ve covered. Shanice Crews disappeared in 2021. Her family searched. They waited. They worried. Then in 2024, police told them the unthinkable — Shanice had been found dead. An autopsy claimed she died from a drug overdose. The body was badly decomposed. The family was not allowed to view her remains...
🎄12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved 🤎
In Day 7 of the 12 Days of Christmas on Black, Brown, & Unsolved, I’m sharing one of the most disturbing and emotionally jarring cases I’ve covered.
Shanice Crews disappeared in 2021.
Her family searched.
They waited.
They worried.
Then in 2024, police told them the unthinkable — Shanice had been found dead. An autopsy claimed she died from a drug overdose. The body was badly decomposed. The family was not allowed to view her remains. They cremated who they were told was Shanice and held a funeral.
Seven months later, they learned the truth.
Shanice Crews was alive.
This episode confronts the devastating consequences of misidentification, the failure to properly confirm identity before notifying a family, and the unanswered question that still remains:
Who did that body actually belong to?
We talk about medical examiner accountability, missing Black women, system negligence, and the irreversible trauma caused when authorities get it wrong — and move on.
Because families don’t get their tears back.
They don’t get their grief back.
And they don’t get answers.
🔗 Sources:
- https://people.com/family-cremated-loved-one-discovered-alive-report-11721679
- https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/family-learns-sister-they-cremated-is-alive/
- https://www.wroc.tv/news/local-news/monroe-county/family-says-missing-sister-declared-dead-is-alive/
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