Authorities work to ID body after grave mix up discovered

An Oklahoma District Attorney is investigating after a body was discovered buried in the wrong grave.

According to Fox 23 in Tulsa, officials were trying to exhume one body for identification at Green Hill Cemetery in Muskogee County and found a different body than the one they expected.
 
Officials said there are five graves grouped closely together in the cemetery. 
 
The district attorney said that when those people were buried in the 1980's, the cemetery apparently mixed up the bodies. 
 
Now officials not only have to find the body they were originally looking for, they also have to figure out the identity of the body they actually dug up.
 
Authorities originally decided to exhume a body in that cemetery because the medical examiner found a new lead on a cold case. A woman was shot to death in Muskogee County in the 1980's, but investigators have never figured out who she was. She was buried as a unidentified woman. 

Now the medical examiner believes that the woman is actually a missing person.  Officials got approval to exhume the grave, only to discover the remains weren't hers.

"There were too many bones from what we had collected in 1983. And then they compared certain areas of the bones where there should have been a fracture from the remains and there wasn't," District Attorney Orvil Loge said.

The DA's office went back and dug up another nearby grave, but it was empty. 

Loge said the woman's remains could be in any of the other graves nearby.