[imagesource: Twitter / @CeeHawk]

Imagine sending an obituary to the newspaper for your late husband and father of your children, only to find another obituary for him by another woman and her son right underneath?

That’s exactly what happened in the case of Ivy and her two children, as well as Paulette and her son, who posted obituaries in the same newspaper using the same image of Carlton Lloyd McLeod.

It looks like McLeod managed to keep his “secret family” separate from the other for the duration of his life, only to be found out via these near-identical obituary pieces placed in the local paper.

Per Newsweek, McLeod died in 2016, but the case has resurfaced recently after a Twitter user shared this image:

When your secret family loves you too ?????? pic.twitter.com/2l4g4k04j4

— Northwest Cee (@CeeHawk) June 16, 2021

The newspaper was later identified as Jamaica’s Kingston Gleaner, with the edition published on June 11, 2017, a year after his death.

Some Twitter users have criticised the newspaper editors for placing the messages with the same images right next to each other:

Val-Zod’s Rose Bearer commented: “I both love and dislike the pettiness of the newspaper editors for this placement.”

Others have speculated over who the “dear friend” was:

Crystal Savage commented: “Side widow really is a thing huh.”

“Dear friend my ass… Paulette is messy for this,” Ihatezoeee wrote.

A bit of a mess you left things in, then, hey ‘Mikey’?

[source:newsweek]