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Sunday, October 5, 2025

People in the News

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Detroit’s financial crisis leads to unclaimed bodies buried in unmarked mass graves

mass-grave.jpgDetroit is in the midst of a fiscal crisis but that is not the only problem the city has faced in recent years.

The Wayne County morgue has for years stored hundreds of unclaimed bodies in its freezers. Now the city has begun the process of burying those unclaimed bodies in mass graves.

It is hard to imagine something like this is happening in the United States. Read more here.