Jeffrey Merriweather Jr.

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2:17FedEx system. The receipt, which the Atlanta Journal Constitution would review in public records years later, is about as ordinary as a receipt can get. Box measures 20 inches by 16 inches by 14 inches. It weighs 18.6 pounds. The shipping charge is $32.61 and delivery is promised within two days. The destination is the St. Louis City Medical Examiner's office, more than 500 miles northwest of where the box starts its trip. Nothing on the receipt hints at what's inside. What is inside is a man, or according to reports from WSBTV and People magazine, some of them. The box is being sent by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, which has run into a problem that it cannot solve on its own. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Gorniak would explain to WSBTV's Tom Jones in this way,

3:17since he was partially skeletonized we couldn't determine a cause of death. So, the office turns to an expert in St. Louis. The remains go into a cardboard box and the box goes to a shipping company that says in writing, it does not carry such things. A FedEx spokesperson would later tell Gizmodo, shipments of this nature are prohibited within the FedEx network. Yet, the box was sent anyway. It was supposed to arrive within days, but never does. And as far as I can find, no one has ever said publicly where it went. This is the story of a man who was reported missing, then found, and then in a very literal sense, lost all over again. His name was Jeffrey Maryweather Jr.

4:20Welcome to Unresolved. I'm your host, Michael Wheelon. If you are new to the podcast, thank you for checking it out. If you enjoyed this show and want to hear more of it, you can support it by heading to patreon.com slash unresolved pod, where you can become a patron and get access to some pretty exclusive perks. And if you can't pledge any financial support, you can still help a great deal by leaving the show a rating and a review on Spotify or Apple Podcast. Those reviews are vital for an independent podcast like this one, so thank you for those who take the time to leave one. Now, without any further ado, let's meet the man at the center of today's story. Jeffrey Maryweather Jr. was JJ to the woman who raised him. That's what his mother

5:21Kathleen Maryweather called him, and it's the name she used when she talked to the Atlanta journal constitutions Asia Simone Burns years later. After all, his father, Jeffrey Maryweather Sr. shared his name. The family was from College Park, a city just south of Atlanta, right up against the airport. As a kid, JJ was a swimmer. Kathleen remembers him excelling on the middle school swim team, and from there he went on to North Clayton High School. As an adult, he worked as a cook at Longhorn Steakhouse, which according to his mother, is how he supported his family. When he wasn't in his restaurant uniform, he was often spotted in Atlanta Felkins gear. He wore his dreads down to his waist and he had several tattoos. He was also a father. Jeffrey had three children, two daughters who lived with him and two he had custody of, and a son who lived with the boy's mother. Kathleen remembers him as a very supportive dad.

6:23Wednesday, June 12, 2019. East Point, Georgia is a city just south west of downtown Atlanta, one town over from College Park. Virginia Avenue runs through it, close to Interstate 85. In the 1200 block of that street sits a McDonald's, which shares a parking lot with a seafood restaurant called Spon Divits, sometime between just after 5pm and around 5.30pm. JJ pulls into that parking lot. According to police, he arrives in a black SUV. It's his own. Police would later say they believe the SUV was being driven by an acquaintance of his. What happens next comes from police statements, from surveillance footage that WSBTV says it obtained and from a handful of local news reports, and honestly it's pretty short. At some point, Jeffrey gets out of the black SUV and climbs into a white Toyota 4 runner. Police would say it was a 2003 to 2009 model. Police say there were two other men inside it with him. One report puts Jeffrey in the back seat. Then someone

7:29starts shooting at the Toyota. Both vehicles drive off, but a young woman who had nothing to do with any of this is passing by and a bullet hits her in the face. She is put on a stretcher and taken to a hospital, and 11 alive's Olivia Labored would report she recovers and goes home. I could not find her name in any coverage. Moments after the shooting, a man drives the black SUV down Virginia Avenue and crashes it at a shell station. It would later be found wrecked. At around 5.30pm, East Point Police arrived. According to Sergeant Ebony Bullock, the department spokesperson, they find exactly one victim, the young woman who was shot in the face. They don't find the Toyota 4 runner or the two other men who were in it. They don't find Jeffrey Maryweather Jr. In fact, the last place anyone reports seeing him is in the back seat of that Toyota. Investigators would begin to try and seek out Jeffrey's whereabouts. They also wanted to identify a man

8:31in a blue and red Superman hoodie, dark pants, and red and white sneakers, seen walking away from the scene. Later spotted at that shell station on the far side of I-85. Sergeant Bullock would describe him to the Atlanta Journal Constitution as possibly a gunman connected to the case. Police would say that they did not believe Jeffrey himself was a suspect in the shooting. Jeffrey's family did not hear from him that night or the next day or the day after that. To his parents, the silence was hard to deal with. Jeffrey Sr. told WSB that no matter what his son got into, he would normally call. Of this new and strange silence, he said, I'm a wreck. On Monday, June 17, five days after the shooting, the story finally hits the news. WSBTV's Kristen Holloway speaks to Jeffrey's parents, who said that they just want him home. Outlets like 11 alive and the Atlanta Journal Constitution run stories asking for help

9:35finding the white Toyota 4 runner, as well as the man in the hoodie and Jeffrey himself. Crime Stoppers Atlanta offers a reward of up to $2,000. Nine days later on Wednesday, June 26, the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Chelsea Prince publishes a follow-up. Headlined in part, foul plays suspected. It reports that Jeffrey has not been seen or heard from in two weeks. Sergeant Ebony Bullock says investigators still don't know who fired the shots or whether there was more than one shooter. They don't know why Jeffrey was at that location or whether he fired a weapon himself. But little did anyone know, four days before that article was published. Someone had already found the remains that the Fulton County Medical Examiner would identify as Jeffrey Maryweather Jr. Saturday, June 22, 2019, 10 days after the

10:38shooting. P.K.N. Drive is a residential street on the southwest side of Atlanta, according to the Medical Examiner's investigative report. A homeowner discovers a body behind a house on that street. Part of it is underneath a deflated air mattress. WSB TV would describe the house as abandoned, but the Medical Examiner's report only notes that it was found behind a house. At this point, the body is already skeletonized. The Atlanta Journal Constitution describes it as a near-complete skeleton, weighing roughly 34 pounds. The outlet would call the state of the remains a mystery, and the Medical Examiner could not say how the victim died. East Point Police say they believe the victim was shot outside of the McDonald's in that parking lot. Court documents, as the Atlanta Journal Constitution would later report, claim that the victim was killed in a drug deal gone wrong. But the state of these remains raises a question that the paperwork never answered. What happened to this victim, supposedly Jeffrey Maryweather Jr., between that parking lot and

11:42P.K.N. Drive? Is 10 days really enough to decompose that body to the point that it was almost fully skeletonized? Now, I have to be upfront about a gap here. I cannot find out when exactly this victim was identified as Jeffrey Maryweather Jr. How this process was done, or who told his family or when? After all, the reporting from the Atlanta Journal Constitution on June 26th, four days after the body's discovery, still called him a missing person. It's possible that the identification simply took a few days. But that's a guess, and I'd rather tell you it's a guess than try and gloss over it. What is documented is what came next. On June 27th, a pathologist at the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, whose name I could not find, writes a letter to a medical examiner in St. Louis, Missouri. The request is for a trauma analysis. The office needs to know how this victim, supposedly Jeffrey Maryweather Jr. died, and the state of his remains means that it

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15:53publicly said who did? Jeffrey's mother, Kathleen Merriweather, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that what stunter when she learned about the shipment was the idea that someone from the medical examiner's office took the box to a FedEx store rather than arranging a pickup of any kind. In her mind, she pictured a receptionist dropping it off on the way home like an errand. That's her image of it, and no one has established it or disproved it in any way. There's another detail that I touched upon in the introduction that shocked me. The remains weighed roughly 34 pounds. The box weighed 18.6 pounds. Two reports from both WSB TV and people say that only some of Jeffrey's remains were sent. What was in the box, what stayed behind, and what happened to the rest of the remains I could not find anywhere. The box's last known location, according to Dr. Jan Gorniak, was a FedEx facility in Ostele, Georgia, about 17

16:54miles west of Atlanta, and that's information per the Washington Post. After that, according to the known tracking, nothing. From Atlanta to St. Louis, the route is about 555 miles. The box appears to have gone no farther than the very edge of the Atlanta area. The box containing Jeffrey's Maryweather Jr.'s remains was due in St. Louis within days. It never showed, and for weeks nobody told the Maryweather's. Jeffrey Sr. and Kathleen told WSB TV that the medical examiner's office insisted for weeks that their son's remains were in St. Louis. Dr. Gorniak's version, when she spoke to Tom Jones, was that they had been talking to the wrong person and that this was something else the office needed to fix. It wasn't until Monday, August 19th, nearly six weeks after the box was due that the family was told the remains were lost.

17:57On Thursday, August 22nd, 2019, WSB's Tom Jones breaks the story. Dr. Gorniak confirms that her office' ship Jeffries remains by FedEx and that they have vanished. She tells him that the office is reviewing its policies to make sure this doesn't happen again. A FedEx representative says that the company is working directly with the medical examiner's office. Days later, Fox 5 talks to Kathleen Maryweather who asked the question that to meet sums up this whole story. Are we ever going to lay his body to rest? The family had to try and say goodbye without a body. Jeffries loved ones put off funeral plans for more than a month, then longer waiting for the box to turn up. And then after nearly three months, they held a memorial service with a wall of photographs where a casket normally would have gone. For almost three years, very little actually happens.

19:00The people who might have answered the Maryweather's questions change. Dr. Jan Gorniak was the Chief Medical Examiner in 2019. By February 2020, Fulton County list Dr. Karen Sullivan as the Interim Medical Examiner and in April 2021, the county board names her permanent. I could not find why Dr. Gorniak left. The facility in Ostele, Georgia meanwhile was earning its own reputation. In 2020, more than 4,000 people signed a change.org petition asking FedEx where all the packages had gone at that location. In April 2021, a consumer website called Trustdale described the facility as a black hole, citing complaints from customers whose packages went in and never came out. And through all of it, the family waited. I don't know when the criminal case enters the record. The first public account I could find of the charges is the Atlanta Journal Constitution story from July 2022,

20:03and it's based on an indictment and a motion filed in court. And according to that reporting, three men were charged in connection with the events that police believe led to Jeffrey Merryweather's death. The documents allege that Jeffrey Merryweather and a man named Christian Darryl Thomas arrived at that parking lot in a black Cadillac escalade. Two other men, Alicia Bajadi and someone who's never been identified arrived in a white Toyota 4 runner. The indictment says that both groups came for a sale of marijuana and that it turned sour. A witness says that Jeffrey got out of the escalade and into the forerunner. Then within minutes, Thomas allegedly walks over and begins shooting into the passenger side, setting off an exchange of gunfire. The white Toyota 4 runner speeds away, and because Jeffrey was never seen getting out, the AJC says that he was presumably still inside. The indictment accuses Alicia Bajadi of killing Jeffrey by shooting him with a handgun. It accuses Christian Darryl Thomas of firing at Bajadi

21:07multiple times as he drove away. It also accuses a third man, Darryl and Yaman Turner of helping Thomas avoid arrest afterward. So there are a lot of gaps in that story that are pretty hard to reconcile. First, the accusation is that a man who arrived with Jeffrey is the one who allegedly began shooting into the car that Jeffrey was sitting in, while a different man is the one accused of killing him. The Atlanta Journal Constitution and the other reports that I've come across can't really reconcile that, and without the official primary documents, neither can I. Second, the indictment claims that the cause of all of this was a sale of some weed that went bad, and I haven't been able to find anything that addresses that any factual way. It seems to be a little more than an allegation about the last afternoon of a man who can't answer for it. But the thing that sticks with me the most is that neither of the indictment nor the police report give any indication about what happened to Jeffrey Maryweather between that parking lot

22:09and the day his remains were found. There were 10 days. During that time, his remains were apparently decomposed to the point of being almost completely skeletonized. Whatever the courts have decided, or not decided about the shooting, that 10 days remains a complete mystery. And the one piece of evidence that might have said something about how he died is in a box that nobody can find. You know when you try a new food and suddenly it's like, wait, how did I not know about this? It's Ryan C. Crest here. That is the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try Cupid Mayo. I'm cooking a lot more at home, and I sure did. It's the one with the red cap and the baby on the bottle. You probably seen it on TikTok. So what makes it different? Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. Cupid only uses egg yolks, giving it this rich umami flavor, which I love. It's smoother, deeper, almost buttery. And people put it on everything. You can put on egg sandwiches, fries, burgers, even pizza crust. Once you notice Cupid, you'll start seeing it everywhere.

23:13Chefs use it, restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Food lovers use it. Never try it. Grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're at the store. Put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand you'll love its rich bold flavor. Cupid, the original Japanese mayonnaise. That's Cupid, the original Japanese mayonnaise. This is Ashley Kennedy from the Ben and Ashley I almost name his podcast. Ben, I've been reflecting a lot lately on how many big life moments our listeners have experienced with us. Yeah, it's pretty wild. They've watched us go from dating shows to engagements, weddings, babies, buying homes. Every stage comes with new decisions. The milestones are the fun part. But the planning is where things get real. That's why Clarna stands out. Clarna gives people smarter tools to help manage everyday money with flexible ways to pay cashback that builds automatically. Everything in one place and support that makes everyday decisions of feel less overwhelming. Since life moves so fast, the right tools can help

24:17you feel more confident. Download the Clarna app today or visit clarna.com to learn more. California resident loans made a range pursuant to a California finance law license. NMLS number 1353190. Clarna balance account required to be eligible for cashback points. Limitations, terms, and conditions apply. Earn your Farm D in as little as 33 months. With West Coast University's hybrid program, no bachelor's degree required. Eligible transfer credits may be accepted. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, just shy of three years since the box originally left Atlanta. WSBTV's Tom Jones sits down with Jeffrey Maryweather senior who's been waiting all that time for an answer. He tells Jones that the experience has felt like a horror film,

25:17and that in all that time he has heard nothing from FedEx or from the medical examiner's office. The medical examiner's office tells WSB that it will reach out to its investigative team. FedEx pretty much says the exact same thing. The family says that they would like to see legislation with civil penalties for anyone who loses human remains. Two days later, people reports that the family is looking to take legal action, and Jeffrey senior tells her he wants someone anyone really to be held liable. Then on Thursday, July 14, the Atlanta Journal Constitution publishes the story that changes things. Asia Simone Burns investigation finds that the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office has produced no formal review and no findings about what went wrong. It had provided the family with almost no information. The AJC reports that the shipment may have actually violated the law because FedEx prohibits shipping human remains. And apparently,

26:17the US Postal Service is the only carrier legally qualified to move them under strict guidelines. Dr. Karen Sullivan, the current medical examiner, does not respond to the AJC's repeated attempts to reach her. Fulton County Commission chairman Rob Pitts declines to comment, a spokesperson for the County Manager's office doesn't return a call. State Representative Rick Williams, a funeral director for more than 40 years, calls the treatment of Jeffrey's remains appalling and says that the office should have consulted a funeral home. Kathleen Maryweather tells the AJC that in three years, she hasn't heard a word from the office about its policies. She wants to know what has changed since the day her son was packed up and sent by FedEx. She asks specifically, what are you changing? Then, that night, something strange happens. The Atlanta Journal Constitution tweets the story and tags the official FedEx account, and FedEx's customer service account replies. The account

27:20introduces itself as Gabby, and apologizes for the pending delivery, inviting the Atlanta Journal Constitution to send a direct message so that she, some shitty AI chatbot can help. Now, you might imagine how that goes over. That reply is immediately mocked and ultimately deleted. FedEx would later tell business insider that it deleted several company responses to the tweet that were made an error, and that it was committed to preventing this type of issue from happening again. Its statements also said that the company's thoughts remain with the family, but surprisingly, the only apology I could find from FedEx is about the stupid tweets. So, this brings us to the question everyone asks when they first hear about the story. Where did the box go? Officially, the answer is that nobody knows. Dr. Jan Gorniak, the original medical examiner, said that the tracking put it in Ostell, Georgia. FedEx told WSBTV that the remains

28:25were not found there. I could not find anyone on the record who was offered up an alternative theory. So, I tried to go where people do that. Within the past few days of this episode being uploaded, a user on the unresolved mysteries subreddit posted a write-up of this case, and the thread filled up quickly. In 2022, the same story circulated on true crime discussion and missing persons, and a web sleuth thread was started back in 2019 when the story first broke. These are strangers on the internet, not official sources, but they ask questions that I think deserve answers. The most common theory among all of these commenters is that the box was probably thrown away. A box arrives at a company that bans human remains, it's not labeled, maybe it's leaking, or it smells weird, and somebody tosses it without knowing what's inside. In favor of that idea, FedEx has never explained the loss, and nothing public shows what search it ran. A couple of commenters who say that they've worked in logistics, or at a FedEx sorting facility, claim a damaged

29:29or unlabeled box would have gone through quality control. The sender would have been notified and the entire terminal would have known. I cannot verify any of that, and FedEx has never said it destroyed anything. A second theory is that an employee took the box, believing that it held something valuable. Again, there's no evidence for that or against it. A third is that the box was never really lost. Maybe there was a missed scan, a miss route, a package sitting in some quarter of the network, or at the medical examiner's office, or in St. Louis. Against that, FedEx told WSP that it did not find the remains at Ostele, Georgia, and it could not find that anyone has reported a search of any other facility. What we do know is that there was a trail of scans, because Dr. Jan Gorniacs said the tracking number put the box at the facility in Ostele, Georgia, a facility known to be a black hole for lost packages. FedEx has at minimum that record tracing it there, and the fact that they have not disclosed where it went after that seems to imply that whatever

30:34happened to it happened there, whether it was discarded or stolen or simply lost. The fault seems to begin and stop with FedEx at that facility. I cannot tell you that FedEx threw the box away. I can't tell you that the medical examiner's office broke the law either. I read the Postal Services own rules for mailing restricted and hazardous items, and what I found covers cremated remains, and separately certain forensic examples. I found nothing about the kind of remains in this box, so whether Federal or Georgia law for bids

31:36what happened here is a question for a lawyer or a medical examiner, not for me. What I can try and tell you is what the paper trail looks like from the family side of the table. The county's medical examiner's office told the Merry Weather family for weeks that their son's remains were in St. Louis Missouri. When the truth came out, its chief said that the office had been talking to the wrong person and that it was reviewing its policies. Almost three years later, the Atlanta Journal Constitution found no formal review, no findings, and no answers. The current medical examiner did not respond to the AJC's repeated attempts to reach her. The county's commission chairman declined to comment, and FedEx for its part says that its service should never have been used for this purpose, and points every question back to the medical examiner's office. An office that, as of the AJC's reporting, has not said why it chose FedEx in the first place. It's basically created one giant

32:38loop, with each side of the loop pointing at the other. And sitting in the middle of that loop is a family, a family who just wants answers. Kathleen Merry Weather told reporters with the Atlanta Journal Constitution that she sometimes wonders whether it would have hurt less to have never known that JJ was dead at all, to have been able to keep hoping that he was out there somewhere. She says that the loss has torn her family apart, and that she worries about her granddaughters, who are grieving a father with no grave divisive. Jeffrey Sr. keeps a room filled with photographs of his son, when reporter Tom Jones was there. Jeffrey Sr. looked at one of them and whispered that he misses his son. The family did not choose for Jeffrey's remains to be sent to St. Louis. They didn't choose FedEx. As Jeffrey Sr. told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the decision to ship his son was the medical examiner's, not theirs. They are the ones who have to live with it every day, while the people who made those decisions have never explained them.

33:42The remains of Jeffrey Merry Weather Jr. have never been found. As far as I can tell, no one has ever even explained how he died. Not the medical examiner, and I could find no record that a courtroom has either. In fact, the most recent public reporting I could find is from 2022. Just days ago, someone on Reddit noted that no outlet has written about Jeffrey since them. I looked and I could not find anything since then either. I don't know whether anyone wants this story forgotten. Motive is not really something I can document, but I do know what an institution silence does given enough time. Every year that nobody answers, the story gets smaller, and a little more like a punchline. The man who was lost in the mail. The customer service AI bot tweet. I suspect that that's what most people who saw this case remember about it. I'm not sure many of them who saw this back in 2019 or even 2022 remember the victim's name. His name was

34:43Jeffrey Merry Weather Jr. If you have information about the shooting from June 12th, 2019, you can contact Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS. That's 404-577-8477. You can remain anonymous. And if you worked at the FedEx facility in Austin in the summer of 2019, or in the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office, and you know something about what happened to that box, please reach out to me personally at michaelatunresolved.me. I will leave a link below in the show notes. As of this episode's recording, the story of Jeffrey Merry Weather Jr. remains unresolved. Thank you for listening to this episode of Unresolved. I would like to give a genuine thank you to

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