A family spent a whole year searching for their dead relative who they had been told had checked themselves out — alive — of a hospital in the US. After months of distressing research, the family discovered that their beloved one had been deceased the entire time. The grim discovery has led to a damning lawsuit against the responsible establishment.
Jessie Peterson died at the age of 31 in the care of Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento, California, USA, in April 2023. Nevertheless, her family spent a year searching for her after they were told that she had checked herself out.
In reality, the hospital had shipped her body to a storage facility and did not inform her mother and sisters, The Guardian reported on Wednesday (August 21).
