missing persons podcast \u201cThe Vanished,\u201d<\/a> that her brother had been traveling from his home in Wilmington, Del., to see a cousin Pennsylvania when the family had lost track of him.<\/p>\n\u201cBobby never made it to my cousin,\u201d Troutman said. \u201cHe just disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
They filed a missing persons report after he vanished \u2014 and endlessly called the NYPD, Port Authority, and the Medical Examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The distraught family begged authorities to look for Maguire, who has a highly recognizable, heavily bandaged right arm \u2014 the result of a horrific, bone-deep dog bite that required major surgery and left his arm basically useless, they told the podcast.<\/p>\n
Despite Bobby carrying proper ID and the hospital correctly recording his date of birth, staff allegedly mistook the \u201cG\u201d in his last name for a \u201cQ,\u201d sending him to be buried as an unclaimed body at the city\u2019s potter\u2019s field on Hart\u2019s Island. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019ve called the medical examiner\u2019s office several times,\u201d Troutman said in her podcast interview. \u201cDo you have this person with a terrible arm injury?\u201d<\/p>\n
But because of the clerical error, the family was repeatedly told no such person existed, according to the suit \u2014 only learning the truth just three days shy of the anniversary of his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t clear exactly how the mistake was discovered or how Maguire\u2019s body was found by his family, members of which did not return requests for comment. Troutman\u2019s attorney declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the lawsuit claims the city still hasn\u2019t returned Bobby\u2019s body to his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troutman\u2019s suit accuses the city and hospital of \u201cpure carelessness,\u201d arguing a simple search would have easily located his next of kin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office claims it conducted a next-of-kin search based on the misspelled hospital data, but declined to comment on whether they were asked to look for his distinctive physical injuries or if Maguire has been disinterred from Hart Island yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucia Lee, a spokesperson for Mount Sinai, said \u201cit would be inappropriate to comment\u201d on pending litigation, but noted the network has strict patient identification protocols.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The lawsuit accuses Mount Sinai West and the city\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office of \u201cpure carelessness.\u201d Robert Miller for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been lost on our own with all this,\u201d Troutman said in the podcast, sharing that she suspected her brother\u2019s tough times may have led to a less than diligent search for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No cause of death has been revealed for Maguire as the city medical examiner\u2019s office didn\u2019t do an autopsy because he died in a hospital of what was recorded as natural causes. The family said he had substance abuse issues, and had been living in a tent because he was unable to work before his death.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a shame because it doesn\u2019t make you any less lovable,\u201d she said, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make you any less cared for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody matters, no matter who it is,\u201d Maguire\u2019s dad, Ron, told the podcast. \u201cThese people may have had a traumatic experience throughout their life \u2014 you matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They made a grave error. A desperate woman spent more than a year searching for her missing brother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27523,2850,4327,57,22195,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-298933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-delaware","tag-lawsuits","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-metro","tag-mount-sinai-hospital","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}