Question: I read reports that Trayvon laid in the morgue for three days before his parents were notified. Did his parents ever look for him in that three day period?
Don't know if this was answered.
NO, Trayvon was only missing 12-13 hours when Tracy Martin found out his son was dead.
Al Sharpton's
Politics Nation (MSNBC) March 21
Here is the story of finding out about Trayvon from the police.
Rev. Al: Why did it take the police so long to contact you? Do you know?
Mr. Martin: Uh, actually, I contacted the police, myself.
Rev. Al: So they never made the contact.
Mr. Martin: I did the initial contact. I called the, uh,--Trayvon was missing, I called Missing Persons, filed a Missing Persons report. Um, at that time they sent officers out. They dispatched--they told me they were going to dispatch a couple of--dispatch a unit to the residence. They called back about ten minutes later and asked me what he had been last seen wearing. And I gave a description of him.
Um, I told them what he had on.
Rev. Al: Now how long had he been missing when this was going on?
Mr. Martin: Uh, since he had left the--since he left the house, which had been over 12 hours, 12 or 13 hours.
Rev. Al: OK, and then what happened?
Mr. Martin: Uh, three units pulled up. There was a marked car, an unmarked car, and a service aid car, which the service aid car, was a chaplain in it. Um, I didn't know it because he just had on a regular uniform.
Uh, the first officer that approached, I identified myself, told him I was filing a Missing Person's report. The second officer approached. Um, he introduced himself as a major crimes investigator. At that time it didn't register to me. He asked me to describe my son. I described him to him. He told me give him a second. He walked to his vehicle, got a folder, came back, asked can we go in the house. We went in the house, uh, he asked me to sit down. I sat down. He pulled out a picture of my son on the ground dead. Asked me was that my son. I confirmed that it was....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/#46814638
And even more The Right Reverend Weird Al Sharpton:
Rev. Al: Now Attorney Crump, why couldn't--if Trayvon had a cell phone--why couldn't they have looked at the cell phone and traced the numbers and called somebody?
Mr. Crump: Well, it's one of the things you would have asked yourself. The police have subpoena power--they could have subpoenaed those records and stuff to find out who he was....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45755884/#46814638
FUN FACTS
1. Trayvon was only "in the morgue" for 12 hours or less.
2. The police could not search his phone without a subpoena (and try finding a judge on a Sunday night in a small town.) Most likely they would have had the subpoena the next day.
3. Trayvon's father waited 12-13 hours after Trayvon left the house before contacting the police. Trayvon had been missing roughly 11-12 hours by then.
