Body search ... as many as 70 bodies could be dug up in the search for Rebecca Alper. Source: Supplied
THE New York Medical Examiner's Office has lost the body of a Manhattan woman — and is now digging up dozens of corpses at a city cemetery to find her, The New York Post has learned.
Rebecca Alper, 71, killed herself in her Upper West Side home last September.
Her corpse went unclaimed at the morgue, and she was apparently buried at City Cemetery on Hart Island, off The Bronx.
But when a relative inquired after her remains last week, the Medical Examiner's Officer couldn't find any paperwork on her and realised she was missing, a source said.
They rapidly began exhuming bodies. They may have to dig up as many as 70 because Alper's remains are likely buried under another name, the source said.
"They're running around in circles on this," the source said. "They don't know what to do. They've been trying to keep this under wraps."
Asked how the office could lose all of a person's paperwork, the source said, "I have no idea, but sheer incompetence is a good bet."
A spokeswoman for the Medical Examiner's Office admitted to the mix-up and said it was trying to find Alper's remains.
"The family has been notified," said the spokeswoman, Julie Bolcer, adding that the office was "actively investigating."
Alper's husband had died several years earlier, and she was been living alone when she took her life.
Before her suicide, Alper seemed a happy person, said Eddy Rodriguez, her building's handyman.
"I would make her laugh. She would call me 'kiddo.' 'Hey, kiddo,' she would say," he recalled.
The blunder was only the latest embarrassment for the Medical Examiner's Office at the cemetery.
The Post reported in February that 75 people who were anonymously buried there up to 24 years ago had been identified — but most of their families don't know it.
Officials used hi-tech means to identify 81 people but have tracked down only six of the families.
"It's an embarrassment,'' Charles Eric-Gordon, a lawyer who helps locate relatives of the dead, had said.
This story originally appeared on NYPost.com
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