Background: News footage of the urn that was supposed to contain the cremated remains of Shanice Crews (WROC). Inset: Shanice Crews (National Missing and Unidentified Persons System).
A New York woman who went missing and was purportedly found dead turned up alive — in another state.
According to WROC, a CBS affiliate in Rochester, the family of 31-year-old Shanice Crews was told that their loved one was found dead in the spring of 2024. The cause, according to the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office, was a cocaine overdose. Authorities told Crews’ family that they believe she had died that February. Her remains were cremated and mixed with the remains of the family matriarch, distributed among the family in jewelry that let them carry the ashes of their departed relatives with them.
But Shanice Crews was actually alive, and residing in Michigan.
