Embalmers Work Revealed Years Later (part 3)

CAustin18 · #1 ● 02-02-2017, 08:01 AM

This is part 3 of the exhumation pictures. These are from two different cases.
The first one shows a man, Alfred Anglin (brother of the Alcatraz escapees) exhumed after some 51 years in order to obtain DNA and to confirm the original (official) cause of death, which was by accidental electrocution in early January, 1964.

There had long been suspicion he was beaten to death in prison, though the examination in 2015 proved he indeed was killed by electrocution, which happened during an escape attempt.

Anglin came in contact with a high voltage line while scaling a wall at the old Kilby prison in Alabama. The body was interred in central Florida, his home, in dry soil, within a steel casket and sealed concrete vault. Preservation was good considering the length of time. His organs were intact and the skin of his hands still flexible. Only his face seemed to had deteriorated a bit.

The second case shows a woman named Sharon who died in the summer of 1978, of an apparent suicide by shotgun to the chest.

Her body was exhumed in late 1994 after evidence surfaced which suggested murder by her husband. The body was in very good shape for having been buried for 16 years and a cut on her toe indicated it was not made by the gun trigger, but by a knife (as it was a staged scene, done by her husband after he shot her following a minor argument). He later killed two more of his wives.

The first picture shows her body soon after the steel casket was opened--the body was covered with a layer of white fungus.
After it was cleaned off (next two pics), the body was shown to be essentially mummified yet very much intact. Finger prints were still present.