Switched At Death

Switched At Death

Long Island firefighters attend the funeral service of Gabby Petito at Moloney's Holbrook Funeral Home in Holbrook, N.Y. Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Two sisters say they are angry after the wrong man was buried in a family plot that was meant for their recently deceased father. Stacy Holzman and Megan Zaner says their father Clifford Zaner died while in a South Carolina hospital and was to be buried at Mount Ararat Cemetery in Lindenhurst. Holzman says right before they were about to bury their father, they opened the casket and immediately knew something was wrong. Holzman says the funeral director was dismissive and said that what she was experiencing was standard if somebody dies in a hospital and assured her it was her father. However, Uniondale-based attorney Phil Rizzuto says eventually the funeral home in South Carolina admitted that Clifford Zaner was not the person whose body had been shipped to New York. The sisters say are now suing for $60 million.

(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)