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If the tax was not paid, the body was removed. Being naturally mummified, they were stored in a building above ground, and people began paying to see the bodies in the late 1800s. The law requiring the burial tax was abolished in 1958." [1] As of 2006, this museum continued to exhibit 59 of the total of 111 mummies in the collection.
It was featured in “The Buried Bodies Case” in 2016 on the podcast RadioLab. [1] It has also been dramatized in the 1987 TV film Sworn to Silence, [26] and a 2003 episode of the TV series Law & Order, "Bodies.” [27] In 2017, Fargo producer Noah Hawley announced the development of a feature film based on the case. [28]
Satellite imagery taken between 2003 and 2005 shows tire marks and patches of disturbed soils in the area where the remains were recovered. According to satellite photos, the last victim was buried in 2005. By 2006, development had encroached on the area, and soon after, the site was disturbed, buried, and platted for residential development.
The grave of Richard III from 1485. In 1495, ten years after the burial, Henry VII paid for a marble and alabaster monument to mark Richard's grave. [9] Its cost is recorded in surviving legal papers relating to a dispute over payment showing that two men received payments of £50 and £10.1s, respectively, to make and transport the tomb from Nottingham to Leicester. [10]
Although no trace of either was ever found, Laso was arrested and convicted for the murders after he was caught faking evidence intended to make people believe that the victims were alive. It is suspected that the bodies were buried in a land plot owned by Laso at the time, which was later expropriated to build a road. [43] [44] [45]
Following the coup, bodies were abundant in the streets and in the Mapocho River. It is estimated that 3,200 people were executed or disappeared between 1973 and 1990 in Chile. Higher estimates are up to 4,500 people. [39] These bodies were taken to morgues to be identified and claimed. Unidentified bodies were buried in marked mass graves. [39]
The scandal first came to light June 7, 1988, when a number of decomposing bodies were found inside the funeral home. [2] Conflicting reports state the bodies were discovered June 6, and reported on the 8th. [3] A total of 36 bodies, including one fetus and three sets of body parts, were uncovered inside the building.
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25-acre patch of land in League City, Texas [1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.