As if it weren't upsetting enough that the Medical Examiner's Office gave a Manhattan family the wrong corpse for cremation and burial, workers there "intentionally destroyed" office records that showed the bungling, according to a city investigation obtained by the Post.

The Department of Investigation probe affirmed the tabloid's earlier reporting, which showed that:

In February 2014, Manhattan morgue workers released the body of Rebecca Alper, 71, who committed suicide in September 2013, to a funeral home that came to get the body of Leah Lehrer, 95, a New York Life financial advisor who died on Jan. 25, 2014.

The latest coverage states that Alper's body was cremated and buried, and Lehrer's went unclaimed "for nearly a year." The two employees responsible didn't notify their bosses they had lost Alper's body for three months, the Medical Examiner's Office claims. When word got out, the city began a frantic search for Alper's corpse, digging up 274 bodies from a potter's field on Hart Island "in a costly but futile effort to find her," according to the Post.

In pursuing the case, investigators couldn't find any documentation of the handling of Alper's body, except for a barcode label identifying her body that they concluded was created after the fact to make the office seem more on top of things, the Post wrote.

This is far from the first tale of morbid mismanagement to come out of the Medical Examiner's Office. The office previously came under fire for mistakenly cremating two men's remains and sending an 85-year-old woman's corpse to a medical school for dissection against her family's wishes. The agency has a bad habit of keeping the brains of dead people without notifying their families. And workers there once labeled the remains of a man who had gone missing and had him buried on Hart Island as a John Doe, which his family didn't discover until six years later.

UPDATE April 13th: The Department of Investigation recommends reforming the office's record-keeping practices and tightening oversight, and the office "embraces all the recommendations," according to Medical Examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer. In the last year, the agency has created a central communications office in Manhattan and implemented a new record-keeping protocol, Bolcer said.

The two workers the agency blames for the snafu are facing internal disciplinary proceedings, according to a rep.