A family mourning the loss of their father was shocked when they went to attend his wake and instead found a stranger laying inside his coffin. Jose Daniel Diaz Felipe, known as Danielito to his friends and family, passed away at the age of 84. His children prepared to say a final goodbye to him Thursday at a wake in Washington Heights. When they showed up at R.G. Ortiz Funeral Home, they were shocked by who they found laying in his casket. “We open the coffin and find another man. And they were trying for hours to convince us he was our father,” Jose Luis Diaz, the man’s son, said Friday. Diaz said his father was bald, like him. He said the man laying in the coffin had hair and was much taller his dad, who was five-foot-three. The family immediately tried to get answers from the funeral home about the whereabouts of their dad. “They say that they found in the same week, they got another person with a similar name,” Diaz told News 4. “We don’t know where our father is right now.” This incident not the first time a family member has accused R.G. Ortiz Funeral Homes of issues. The NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection sued R.G. Ortiz Funeral Homes after receiving nearly 50 complaints about the condition of the remains of loved ones and misrepresenting or concealing the prices of services offered. In 2024, the funeral home settled the suit agreeing to pay $600,000 to clients and pay $100,000 in civil penalties. Diaz said the funeral home told him his father’s remains are now at the company’s main office in the Bronx.    “They say that they cremated him, but we don’t know for sure if that is our father,” he said. News 4 made calls to the funeral home company, but did not hear back. ...read more read less