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Recent Examples of exhumedSaint Nicholas‘ body was then exhumed and reburied in the church.—Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Dec. 2024 Between June and November 2015, those remains were again exhumed and analyzed at the DPAA's laboratory.—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024 Investigators had Jane Seneca Doe’s body exhumed and her DNA was extracted.—Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024 The case went cold until 2016, when police exhumed the remains from a remote corner of a cemetery in Lebanon, Pennsylviana, to obtain her DNA.—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024 In another effort to identify her, officials, with the help of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, exhumed the girl's body from Mount Lebanon Cemetery in May 2016.—Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2024 With Charlie Hunnam in the leading role, season 3 will dive into the haunting story of Ed Gein, a notorious 1950s murderer who not only took multiple lives but also exhumed graves to create household and clothing items from human remains.—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024 Now, in the converted space, on rows of stainless tables, lay 13,000 bones exhumed from 46 graves — and 62 caskets — from the cemetery on the hill above Honolulu.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024 That assumption proved to be unfounded six years later when the truth came to light and Mengele’s remains were exhumed for analysis by international experts.—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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