Police Concealment: The Tragic Burial of a Missing Son

Four years after a Jackson Police officer was convicted of manslaughter for the beating death of her brother, Bettersten Wade learned that another JPD officer had struck and killed her son, Dexter Wade, in an SUV and that the county had buried him in an unmarked grave. Dexter Wade had been missing for nearly six months before the department informed his mother of his fate. The Jackson Police Department did not notify the family until August 2023, and they buried Dexter Wade in a pauper's field. Bettersten Wade is now raising money to exhume his body and give him a proper resting place.