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Revelations: 1) Her body may be exhumed to determine whether she was assaulted with a stun gun and 2) some investigators suspect that her death was an accident, and her parents' real crime was covering it up.
The classic example is the corpse of the corrupt Pope Formosus (816-896), which was exhumed and dragged through the streets of Rome.
In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.
It is said that she was buried with her infant at her feet, but when their bodies were exhumed, the child was found cradled in her arms.
Here, the line between the scientist and the grave robber blurs, as corpses are exhumed and cremation urns raided to provide organic remnants for any number of curious purposes.