Missouri Family Spent 10 Hours Believing Daughter Was Dead After Police Wrongly ID Car Crash Victim

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A Missouri family is holding their daughter a little tighter after an “identity problem” at the city morgue led them to believe she was dead for the better part of a day.

Back on May 22, Mae and Charlie Ferguson got a knock on their door “at 5:17 in the morning” from police informing them that their daughter Danika had died in a hit and run car accident.

According to Fox 2, for the next 10 hours, the devastated parents began organizing funeral arrangements and an organ donation, and even told their grandchildren, the kids of Danika, that their mother had died. Related: Stepson Of Missing Titanic Tourist Sub Boasts About Seeing Blink-182 Amid Search However, it turns out that Danika was not only still very much alive and well, but not even anywhere near the crash! Cynthia Mobley began to raise suspicion over the identity of the poor individual who lost their life in the fiery car crash after she noticed her daughter Nichole Kent’s car in reports of the incident — and couldn’t get ahold of her.

She told Fox 2 earlier this month: Ugh, could you imagine going through all this? What a devastating roller coaster of emotions.