Seven Years After My Daughter’s Funeral, I Followed Her Husband to a Rehabilitation Center—And Saw a Woman I Thought Was Dead
The problem was treating the belongings as more conclusive than they were.
The underlying dental comparison was incomplete.
The supporting sheet wasn’t properly present in the original file.
The identification notice had been issued before the available documentation established what it claimed.
I looked at Lena.
“So the remains weren’t Melissa’s.”
“The reopened review supports correcting the identification to Nora Vance, based on the combined records and verification.”
I stared.