5:04 PM
after her family buried her in an emotional
service.
Sharolyn Jackson, 50, was laid to rest at Colonial
Memorial Park by her devastated family on August
3, following the Philadelphia Medical Examiner
signing a death certificate and releasing a body
believed to be hers.
'I had to call my wife and give her the sad news
over the phone you know, that they'd just found
our daughter dead,' her father Dave Minnie said.
But last Friday, Jackson showed up alive at a
mental health facility in central Philadelphia.
Her son, Travis, passed on the good news to her
father, who was overjoyed.
'You know you feel you're just about to get over it,
that she's dead, then Travis comes here with the
good news that she's alive,' he told CBS News,
laughing.
Jackson was reported missing from her West
Philadelphia home on July 18.
When a body of a woman fitting her description
was found on July 20 on a West Philadelphia
street, officials thought it could be her.
A social worker who knows Jackson, and Travis,
both identified pictures of the dead woman as the
missing Jackson.
The Medical Examiner's Office then signed a death
certificate, which allowed an undertaker to
remove her body for funeral services and burial.
'They showed (Travis) black and white photos. It
looked like her,' Minnie said.
The Philadelphia Health Department insists all
proper procedures were followed and, with two
people, including a family member, identifying
her, it was following protocol to hand over the
body.
An investigation has now been launched into
whose body is in fact buried in the grave thought
to be Jackson's.
Officials know the woman died from natural
causes and her body was found on the street on
July 20.
They are seeking an order to exhume the body in
an attempt to identify the woman.
Minnie said that while he was thrilled to have his
daughter back, he feel's great sorrow for the
family whose loved one is buried at the gravesite.
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