y 13, 2025 - where he died two days later, the suit says. Facebook/Kathy Troutman

According to the city's Hart Island lookup tool, he was registered as  Maquire. 

The simple mistake left his family - including sister Kathy Troutman who filed the lawsuit this week - living a year-long nightmare.

Troutman said in an interview with the missing persons podcast  The Vanished,  that her brother had been traveling from his home in Wilmington, Del., to see a cousin Pennsylvania when the family had lost track of him.

 Bobby never made it to my cousin,  Troutman said.  He just disappeared. 

They filed a missing persons report after he vanished - and endlessly called the NYPD, Port Authority, and the Medical Examiner's office.

The distraught family begged authorities to look for Maguire, who has a highly recognizable, heavily bandaged right arm - the result of a horrific, bone-deep dog bite that required major surgery and left his arm basically useless, they told the podcast.

4 Despite Bobby carrying proper ID and the hospital correctly recording his date of birth, staff allegedly mistook the  G  in his last name for a  Q,  sending him to be buried as an unclaimed body at the city's potter's field on Hart's Island. Stephen Yang for NY Post

 That's why we've called the medical examiner's office several times,  Troutman said in her podcast interview.  Do you have this person with a terrible arm injury? 

But because of the clerical error, the family was repeatedly told no such person existed, according to the suit - only learning the truth just three days shy of the anniversary of his death.

It wasn't clear exactly how the mistake was discovered or how Maguire's body was found by his family, members of which did not return requests for comment. Troutman's attorney declined to comment.

Meanwhile, the lawsuit claims the city still hasn't returned Bobby's body to his family.

Troutman's suit accuses the city and hospital of  pure carelessness,  arguing a simple search would have easily located his next of kin.

The city's medical examiner's office claims it conducted a next-of-kin search based on the misspelled hospital data, but declined to comment on whether they were asked to look for his distinctive physical injuries or if Maguire has been disinterred from Hart Island yet.

Lucia Lee, a spokesperson for Mount Sinai, said  it would be inappropriate to comment  on pending litigation, but noted the network has strict patient identification protocols.

4 The lawsuit accuses Mount Sinai West and the city's medical examiner's office of  pure carelessness.  Robert Miller for NY Post

 We've been lost on our own with all this,  Troutman said in the podcast, sharing that she suspected her brother's tough times may have led to a less than diligent search for him.

No cause of death has been revealed for Maguire as the city medical examiner's office didn't do an autopsy because he died in a hospital of what was recorded as natural causes. The family said he had substance abuse issues, and had been living in a tent because he was unable to work before his death.

 It's a shame because it doesn't make you any less lovable,  she said,  It doesn't make you any less cared for. 

 Everybody matters, no matter who it is,  Maguire's dad, Ron, told the podcast.  These people may have had a traumatic experience throughout their life - you matter.