Monday was supposed to be the day Bettersten Wade would finally get a measure of peace. Instead, she suffered another indignity. Wade and her lawyers had arranged with Hinds County officials to exhume the remains of her son, Dexter Wade, who’d been struck and killed by a Jackson police officer and buried in a pauper’s field at the county penal farm without her knowing. They agreed on 11:30 a.m. Monday. Her lawyers said they spoke to a county attorney Sunday to confirm. But when Bettersten Wade arrived at the penal farm at the appointed time, her son’s remains had already been dug up, put in a body bag and placed in the back of a Chevy Suburban. County officials said a public works crew had turned up earlier in the morning and removed the remains before anyone else arrived. “It makes me feel like I don’t exist,” Bettersten Wade said. “It doesn’t matter that I’m his mother. It didn’t matter to them. They act like that’s their child and they’re really the one who decides what happens t...