May 2022: Jackson MS police find a man's body in a hotel room.
December 2023: His mother is informed of that. By reporters. After more than a year of searching for him in hopes that he was alive.
He had been buried in a field on a penal farm, marked only by a number https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jonathan-david-hankins-missing-buried-jackson-mississippi-rcna128735
Without the police, who would find your son dead, not tell you, and then give him less respect than they would a dog?