WRIC Richmond News and Weather - Missing Richmond Woman's Casket Possibly Found
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The controversy began earlier this month when Norman Turner went to the cemetery for the delivery of his late wife's tombstone. Staff told him that she was buried in a different location from where he remembered her funeral service being held.
When staff unearthed the grave where officials thought she was, they found someone else's body.
Cemetery workers then began searching the lot where Norman Turner had been saying that his wife Patricia is buried. After some investigation, officials narrowed the possibilities down to three graves.
One unearthed casket was similar to Patricia's but Norman said that the casket looked too old to be his wife's. She was buried three months ago.
"I think I need to go and look, go a little farther than that, because I want to know for sure, because there's more than one gold and white casket," he said.
Norman said that after all he has been through he wants to know for sure that he has finally found his wife.
"They found a gold and white casket, and I'm still not satisfied. I told them I want to have her exhumed and I want to see for myself."
He said that he will have to get a court order to have the casket opened.
In the meantime, he will be celebrating his first Thanksgiving without his wife.
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