Hi there. I'm calling because I'm trying to track down some information about my mother's

partner who died in 1982. My mom has been waiting 37 years to say goodbye to Billy.

I guess my question is she they they called her to identify the body. She came back in

the summer of 1982. My mom says after she went to identify Billy's body, she learned that

without her permission, he'd been sent to a cemetery where people are buried in mass graves

by the city. And they said, oh, we sent him to a potter's field. She never knew where.

So I'm on the phone with the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York. Under

what circumstances would a body be sent to a potter's field from you guys?

If we were unable to contact any family members or friends or no one came forward to make

arrangements for a person or if we did reach someone and they made the request to have

the person buried at the city cemetery on Hart Island.

Hart Island so Hart Island is the the potter's field for the city of New York.

Yes, correct. According to the medical examiner's office, Billy has to be buried on Hart Island.

The only problem is when I searched the city's Hart Island database, Heizman, nothing,

William Heizman, nothing, Bill Heizman, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing,

but then what's going on? What? It's the Hart Island look up service. Look. Heizman,

William, 37 years old, date of death, June 15th, 1982 at Cabrini Medical Center. He's

buried at plot number 136. I just fucking found Billy.

Heightmen, there's no Z and that's why we haven't been able to find him this whole time.

Oh my god. This whole thing was just a misspelling?

A fucking found Billy.

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