Fran Phillips

Maryland’s health department is reporting the first heat-related death of the year

Maryland state health officials are implementing new ways of tracking the remains of body donors after a News4 I-Team investigation revealed what one administrator called a “serious inventory control” problem inside the state-run program.

Carmen Keggins, of Ellicott City, said she’s gone through “hell” since learning in August that she had been given the wrong remains for her late husband, Brian Keggins. Then, the I-Team found more problems at the Maryland State Anatomy Board. News4’s Scott Macfarlane reports.

A Maryland program overseeing bodies given to science mishandled the remains of several of its donors, with problems including poor tracking of bodies, a donor’s cremains being mistakenly buried in a state cemetery and at least one known allegation of an employee intentionally sending the wrong remains to a donor’s family, a News4 I-Team investigation found.