Way back in Jan. 09, 2005; 17-year-old Jesse Jerome Shipley, a student at Staten Island’s Port Richmond High School, died in a car crash as a result of skull injuries received in the accident. His distraught parents the very next day authorized an autopsy.
At that point they were completely unaware that the morgue medical examiners had kept back Shipley’s brain. The mortuary personnel however, did send back the teen’s body to his family for the last rites.
However, through a chilling co-incidence, the family learnt the truth that the medical examiner’s office had kept aside his brain and other organ parts for testing purpose. And this is how they found out the truth:
Months after the accident, the victim’s sister and her friends who were members of the high school’s forensics club went on a field trip to the Richmond County Mortuary. There they spotted a specimen jar labeled with Jesse’s name.
The kids who knew him became really distraught at that point. Some of them even took cell-phone photographs of the brain floating in the jar. At the time of the car crash, the victim’s 14-year-old sister had been with him as a co- passenger, however, she miraculously survived the crash.
Due to the mortuary morbid find, the family had to conduct a second burial for the brain of the dead teen. Meanwhile city lawyer Sheila Rossi offered her sympathy for the tragic loss to the family.
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