Bones Found in Purported Mob Graveyard
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NEW YORK - Investigators found the remains of two people believed to be former Mafia captains at a vacant lot apparently used for years as a graveyard for people ordered killed by the late mob boss John Gotti and other gangsters, authorities said.    Searchers recovered bones and other tissue in a shoe, ribs, a partial jaw and teeth and two personal items that led investigators to believe they had the remains of Bonanno crime family captains Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera, law enforcement officials familiar with the dig said Tuesday on condition of anonymity...
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MENDEN-BARGE, Germany  - German authorities have unearthed the remains of 51 people, many of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them near Mogadishu's airport.
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HATRA, Iraq, Oct 13  - Forensic experts digging for evidence against ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have carried out their first full exhumation of a mass grave filled with the skeletons of scores of women and children, many shot in the back of
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A dead man's storage locker yielded dozens of tombstones, a macabre collection that police believe represents "a lifetime of stealing."
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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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 team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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A drug dealer accused of murdering three generations of a family of Indian origin attempted to bury their bodies in a mass grave dug on a friend's land, a court was told.
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Experts in Nepal study a site thought to contain the buried or cremated remains of up to 49 people.
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Police looking for two children missing since 2004 found a shallow grave Sunday containing human bones, and the children's mother said she had been told they were likely the remains of her son and daughter.
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Prosecutors said 499 gravestones were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery in New Brunswick, N.J., in two separate instances on Jan. 1 and Saturday night.
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There is a "high degree of probability" that bones found recently near the Russian city of Yekaterinburg are those of a daughter and son of the last czar, an official said Friday, citing preliminary forensic work.
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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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KEVLJANI, Bosnia  - Forensic experts said Friday  they had found remains of 182 people, believed to have been  wartime prisoners killed by Bosnian Serb forces, in a mass  grave in western Bosnia and that they expected to find more.
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Eight men whose skeletal remains were discovered last year in Fort Myers were the victims of homicide, police said Friday.