Rosita Cage-Toaster, who now lives in Atlanta, but at the time was attending University of Detroit Mercy, remembers the call she received nearly eight years ago. Detroit police had discovered an abandoned car owned by her daughter, 28-year-old Crissita Elaine Cage-Toaster, on Belle Isle, a large island park east of Downtown Detroit. Her car had been found abandoned near the Belle Isle bridge, with her purse, cell phone and ID still inside. They gave a detailed description of their adult daughter, including of her distinct tattoos 
 
 "From that day on, I've been searching for her," Cage-Toaster said. For years, she periodically called Detroit police investigators hoping for a clue, but nothing turned up. Then, on Sept. 29 of this year, Rosita Cage-Toaster received another unforgettable call. "It's when we got the news she was deceased, and they actually found the body on March 30, 2010," Cage-Toaster said.  DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police recently told the parents of a woman reported missing in 2009 that investigators actually found her body in 2010 and later buried her unidentified remains, blaming the mistake in part on investigative records that wrongly listed her ethnicity. She said the coroner performed a cursory death investigation, but that a cause of death wasn't determined. One major reason the body was never linked to the missing-person report is that both Detroit police, who pulled the body from the river, and the coroner, recorded their daughter as either Caucasian or Hispanic. She was black. That nightmare is one that Cage-Toaster has endured for almost 8 years. Local officials notified her parents this week of plans to exhume the body, which was buried with other unidentified remains at a cemetery west of Detroit about a year after it was discovered. 'It was a mix-up' 
 
 The parents, though they suspected the worst, never gave up hope their daughter might still be alive. She just never imagined that it would end with such a painful and startling surprise. The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office tells us they did document Crissita's tattoo in the autopsy report they provided to DPD. "The examiner says the Detroit Police Department, they dropped the ball." Cage-Toaster called her past attempts to work with Detroit police missing-person detectives a "lost cause." "During that time in history, I cannot really account for what may or may not have happened," Detroit Police Lt. Gardner told WXYZ-Channel 7 News, who first reported this story. "During that time and period in Detroit history, I cannot really account for what may or may not have happened, but what I can say is that the team that we have in place today, they were able to make a turn around in 24 hours and connect the dots," Gardner says. You can't feel my pain... You didn't go through what I went through all these years. It all started when her 28-year-old daughter Crissita disappeared in Detroit on October 26th, 2009. The parents of 28-year-old Crissita Cage-Toaster said they gave police a detailed description of their daughter — including of a large rose tattoo on her shoulder that included her parents' nicknames — when they reported her missing in October 2009. She urged them to focus on the fact that Crissita had a distinctive tattoo. 'So many inconsistencies' 
 
 The National Institute of Justice maintains a public database of unidentified remains and missing persons (the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System). The database usually includes details like tattoos that should have signalled a match, based on the description the parents intially reported. "There's so many inconsistencies," Cage-Toaster said. "This seems like, to me, you could give this to an elementary school student and they could figure out the puzzle. And they're supposed to be professionals." For most of that time, Crissita had been buried at a Canton cemetery, associated only with a number. The medical examiner sometimes works with the media to publish information, such as tattoos or other identifying marks, along with details such as where the body was found. 'More than meets the eye' 
 
 Following Crissita Cage-Toaster's disappearance, her mother attempted to retrieve her daughter's personal belongings. "Everybody is sorry," Cage-Toaster said. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System database said there are currently over 14,000 unidentified remains nationwide, nearly 300 of which are in Michigan.
– Almost eight years after their daughter's car was found abandoned in Detroit, a Georgia couple held out hope that the missing woman would be found alive. It was hope that should've been dashed within months. The body of Crissita Cage-Toaster was pulled from the Detroit River in March 2010, five months after the 28-year-old vanished, per the AP. But though the woman was black, Detroit police and the coroner determined her body belonged to a white or Hispanic woman. It was labeled "Jane Doe 10-3047," held in a coroner's cooler for a year, then buried with other unidentified remains in an unmarked cemetery grave, a cause of death never established, reports MLive. Rosita Cage-Toaster, 58, and her husband, Johnny Toaster, 64, say authorities only informed them of "a mix-up" a month ago, a few months after the couple asked a missing-persons group for help in the case, per WXYZ. Police now say months in the river had affected their daughter's complexion, but the couple wonders how a large tattoo of a red rose on their daughter's right shoulder wasn't a clear giveaway. "I kept telling them to focus on that tattoo," says Cage-Toaster, per MLive. "You could give this to an elementary school student and they could figure out the puzzle." The pair—who say personal items found in their daughter's car were apparently thrown out—say their daughter's body will be exhumed and they'll figure out where they want to bury her. A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday.