Remains taken from damaged grave
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Police say most of the remains of an 82-year-old woman were stolen when her grave was desecrated.
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FITCHBURG, Mass. - Police say a gravedigger stole body parts - including a skull and a thigh bone - from a broken casket at a church cemetery and took them home to make an ashtray.
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The bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons and a grandson have been exhumed and reburied near the ousted leader's grave in his hometown north of Baghdad, tribal officials said Wednesday.
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Forensic teams are combing a churchyard where animal activists have been blamed for digging up a grave.
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societies went to work picking up bits of flesh and bone for burial under Jewish law. &quot;In many cases we prevent heavy disasters.
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Serbia has returned the remains of what are believed to be 44 Kosovo Albanians who were killed in 1999 and buried in a mass grave outside Belgrade.
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By AMY WESTFELDT  NEW YORK - The search for the remains of Sept. 11 victims has moved across the street from the site of the World Trade Center to the lot of a destroyed church, where important relics, including the bones of three saints, may also be buried.
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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Discarded like trash, eight bodies went unnoticed for years in a thicket of trees and scrub, on the edge of downtown. When they were discovered in March, nothing remained but bones.
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Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.
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ARCHER'S POST, Kenya  - Kenyan and British investigators exhumed the remains of a woman as part of a probe into allegations that British soldiers have raped hundreds of Kenyan women in a region used as a military training ground for three decades.
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MANILA, Aug. 31 -- Soldiers have found mass graves believed to hold the remains of up to 300 people who were allegedly killed by communist guerrillas in the 1980s during a purge of suspected spies in the Philippines' remote east, officials said Thursday.
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By Mark Bowes, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 7--Police are excavating a residential site in Amelia County after receiving a Crime Solvers tip that a missing person's remains might be buried there.
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A northwest Georgia county has sued the owners of a crematory where 334 bodies were found, seeking &#36;2 million to recover the cost of cleaning up the corpse-strewn property and other expenses.
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Human bones and other remains were unearthed Friday at sites where a former concrete worker told authorities he buried four of eight women he had killed, prosecutors said.
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The body of an elderly woman is to be exhumed by police investigating seven deaths at a care home in Somerset.
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The skeletal remains of 14 people believed to be victims of right-wing paramilitaries have been unearthed in a mass grave in southwest Colombia, authorities said Friday.