Father Buries Wrong Man After Coroner’s Mistake

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — 11 days after laying his son to rest, Frank J. Kerrigan got a call from a friend.
“Your son is alive,” he said.
“Bill (Shinker) put my son on the phone,” Kerrigan said. “He said ‘Hi Dad.’ ”
Orange County coroner’s officials had misidentified the body, the Orange County Register reported Friday (http://bit.ly/2tZSyZj).
The mix-up began on May 6 when a man was found dead behind a Verizon store in Fountain Valley.