Kendrick Johnson was the young boy who was found dead at his school rolled up in a gym mat last year. The young man died last year and was ruled a freak accident by Detectives. They claimed they young man got stuck upside down in the mat reaching for a gym shoe. The family of Kendrick don't believe in the accident theory and they had his body exhumed for a second autopsy last year. They believe he was murdered and want to ensure that his murderer is captured.

After the young mans body was exhumed the private pathologist that the family had hired found that boys internal organs had all been removed and replaced with newspaper! The funeral home handling his body replaced his organs with newspaper unbeknownst to the family. When they found out they were outraged (as they should have been). No one knows what happened to Johnson's organs. According to the medical examiner Bill Watson the internal organs were too badly decomposed to preserve so they were deposed of immediately after the autopsy. The medical examiner concluded that Kendrick Johnson died from positional asphyxia. Positional Asphyxia is when the body is stuck in a position preventing breathing. The private pathologist findings were very different. He found that Johnson had died form a blow to the back of the neck determining his death non-accidental.

Attorneys for the family are accusing Harrington Funeral Home of fraud, negligence and intentional mishandling of a corpse. They filed suit on Jan. 31 in Lowndes County State Court. They are seeking compensation and punitive damages. The U.S. attorney for middle Georgia, Michael Moore has opened an investigation with the help of the FBI and currently their findings have not be made public. One can only assume they are still investigating.