Parents: Detroit police found missing woman dead years ago
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A couple is struggling to understand how their daughter was found dead years ago in Detroit and buried in an unmarked grave without their knowledge.
The parents of 28-year-old Crissita Cage-Toaster reported her missing in October 2009.
Her mother, Rosita Cage-Toaster, says Detroit police called her late last month, telling her they'd found her daughter's body in 2010 in the Detroit River but didn't initially identify the body.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Part of the reason was because the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office and Detroit police records listed her ethnicity as Caucasian or Hispanic. She was black.
A cause of death wasn't determined. The body was eventually buried at a cemetery west of Detroit.
The county notified her parents this week of plans to exhume the body. They say Detroit police were negligent in the investigation.