A Wisconsin teen who was declared frozen to death and sent to a morgue was actually still alive, and his family is fighting for justice.

Jake Anderson was just 19 years old and a freshman at the University of Minnesota.

One night in December 2013, he’d gone to a party, walked some friends home, and then vanished. Hours later, a photographer spotted him collapsed face down near the Stone Arch Bridge, per the Daily Mail.

It was 15 below zero.

When emergency crews arrived, they assumed the worst. Paramedics decided Jake was “obviously dead” without even touching him — just a look from 15 feet away and a quick pulse check under the arm by a firefighter, as reported by the Star Tribune.

That phrase, “obviously dead,” is typically reserved for bodies with catastrophic trauma, not someone lying in the snow.

But Jake wasn’t dead.

According to later findings, he was still alive, but suffering from severe hypothermia. His heart and breathing had slowed dramatically — a condition that could have been treatable with careful warming. Instead, responders left him there.

“He laid there in zero-degree weather for three hours,” Jake’s father, Bill, said.

“They didn’t even turn him over,” added his mother, Kristi.

“They left him laying on the pile of rocks where they found him and didn’t even give him a fighting chance to survive,” she said.

Jake wasn’t rushed to hospital. He was taken straight to the morgue, where experts later concluded that’s where he actually died.

The heartbreak didn’t stop there.

The Andersons tried to sue for wrongful death, targeting multiple agencies: the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, the police and fire departments, and HCMC Ambulance Services. But thanks to their lawyer at the time — Robert Hopper — the case collapsed.

Hopper, a veteran attorney with 40 years of experience and ties to the University of Minnesota, botched the case so badly that a judge later said the Andersons “would have been successful in the underlying wrongful death action” if not for his malpractice.

They paid Hopper a $5,000 retainer and were told the case would be filed by September 1, 2016.

Instead, Hopper waited until just a week before the statute of limitations expired in December. And then came the fatal blow — the Andersons weren’t appointed as legal trustees of Jake’s estate, a necessary step Hopper never even mentioned.

A paralegal tipped them off by asking if they’d taken that step — far too late.

The court threw the case out. Hopper’s attempt to amend it failed.

In the years since, Hopper lost his law firm and surrendered his license.

Investigators have never figured out exactly what happened that night.

Jake had defensive wounds, there were drag marks in the snow, his shoes and coat were gone, and surveillance cameras in the area were mysteriously off.

Jake’s parents have won $6.4 million in damages since, but their victory doesn’t feel like justice.

The money came from their claim against Hopper, not against the first responders who declared their son dead.