Body on Way to Family in Mexico Flies to Greece
The body of a man headed to his hometown in Mexico for burial took an unexpected detour and ended up in Greece.
Instead of finding family patriarch Robert Castaneda, 68, in the casket that arrived in Apatzingan, relatives found the body of an African American man with a cigar and a book with a picture of the World Trade Center on the cover.
The family had raised $8,000 to pay travel and burial expenses and suddenly had no idea where the body was--until Sunday, when Delta Airlines officials called to say that Castaneda’s body had ended up in Greece. Both bodies were slated to be returned to San Francisco.
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