California father buries wrong man thinking it's his son following coroner's mistake

The joy of a father knew no bounds
when eleven days after he buried his son, he was told he had buried
the wrong person and his son was still alive. Orange County coroner’s
officials had misidentified a body they found dead behind a Verizon
store in Fountain Valley, California on May 6 and contacted the wrong family with the information.

Frank
J Kerrigan, 82, of Wildomar, told of how he called the coroner’s office
and was told the body was that of his son, Frank M. Kerrigan, 57, who
is mentally ill and had been living on the street by choice. He asked if
he needed to identify…