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Because limited space there makes burials a challenge, the traditional Cuban practice is to bury the deceased for six to eight months and then to exhume and inter the remaining bones, Rivero says.
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Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The body was exhumed and a new verdict delivered: murder, by strangling.
—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Investigators had Jane Seneca Doe’s body exhumed and her DNA was extracted.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
Police exhumed the boy's body in 2019, but efforts to extract usable DNA took about two-and-a-half years, said Colleen Fitzpatrick, president of Identifinders International, at a 2022 press conference.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
The body was exhumed and a new verdict delivered: murder, by strangling.
—Liesl Schillinger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Investigators had Jane Seneca Doe’s body exhumed and her DNA was extracted.
—Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
Police exhumed the boy's body in 2019, but efforts to extract usable DNA took about two-and-a-half years, said Colleen Fitzpatrick, president of Identifinders International, at a 2022 press conference.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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