Woman Claims Her Missing Son Was Found Days After His Disappearance and Buried Without Her Knowledge
This week, a Mississippi woman said in an interview that her son who was reported missing last year was discovered dead days after his disappearance and buried in a “pauper’s field” without her knowledge.
According to NBC News, Gretchen Hankins’ 39-year-old son Jonathan David Hankins left their home in May 2022 to spend the weekend with friends. He said he would return on Sunday. Jonathan Hankins never returned. . .
When her son never returned, Gretchen Hankins called the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office and reported her son missing. A search was announced on Facebook, through the local media, and posted on a national database. Volunteers began searching for Jonathan Hankins. . .
A Mississippi man had been missing since May 2022.
Every few weeks, his mother contacted the sheriff's office with no luck.@NBCNews solved the mystery in a matter of minutes.
He was buried in a pauper’s field without his family’s knowledge. https://t.co/s2o0PhYh7j
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 12, 2023
NBC News figured out what happened to Jonathan Hankins this fall by examining documents related to people being buried in a “pauper’s field” in Hinds County, Mississippi (via NBC News):
NBC News solved the mystery this fall in a matter of minutes. As part of an investigation into people being buried in a Hinds County pauper’s field without their families’ knowledge, reporters examined a register of all the recent burials and compared it with a publicly available list of missing Mississippians. Jonathan’s name was on both.
After obtaining documents through public records requests to confirm the match, NBC News visited Gretchen at home in Florence, Mississippi, on Dec. 4 and shared what reporters had learned: Jonathan had been found dead on May 23, 2022, three days after leaving home, in a hotel room in nearby Jackson. Investigators quickly verified his identity. But the Hinds County coroner’s office and the Jackson Police Department, which both responded to the scene, failed to tell his family, and the county buried him in a grave marked only by a number: 645.
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