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Secret identity of 150-year-old body found in NYC revealed
Fox News ^ | 2 October 2018 | Michael Kaplan

Posted on 10/02/2018 2:51:20 PM PDT by Magnatron

On the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2011, a backhoe dug into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and struck iron. Construction workers assumed they had hit a pipe. But when the claws of the backhoe emerged from the ground, it was dragging a body clothed in a white gown and knee-high socks.

Scott Warnasch, then a New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner forensic archaeologist, initially viewed the finding as a recent homicide. “It was recorded as a crime scene,” Warnasch, 52, told The Post. “A buried body on an abandoned lot sounds pretty straightforward.”

It turned out to be anything but. The almost perfectly preserved body was actually that of a woman born decades before the Civil War. She had been buried in what was once the grounds of a church founded in 1830 by the first generation of free African-Americans. Now a new documentary, “The Woman in the Iron Coffin,” premiering Wednesday on PBS, provides the woman’s identity.

The Post can reveal that researchers believe her to be Martha Peterson, who worked for a local white man with abolitionist leanings.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; elmhurst; godsgravesglyphs; marthapeterson; queens; scottwarnasch
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Pretty cool...
1 posted on 10/02/2018 2:51:20 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

Where was Kavanaugh when this happened?


2 posted on 10/02/2018 2:54:08 PM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: Magnatron

Keep digging. Maybe you’ll find Jimmy.


3 posted on 10/02/2018 2:57:34 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: Magnatron
We must bring the perpetrator to justice.

/s

4 posted on 10/02/2018 3:01:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob (#meToo Things have gotten so bad that Caitlyn Jenner has memories of Bruce touching her.)
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To: Magnatron

This was a really interesting article, particularly how they identified her and the details about the iron casket. I read it in the NY Post a couple of days ago.


5 posted on 10/02/2018 3:02:38 PM PDT by livius
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To: Magnatron

Very cool post.


6 posted on 10/02/2018 3:02:44 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I was thinking the same thing.


7 posted on 10/02/2018 3:02:56 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: metmom

Great minds...


8 posted on 10/02/2018 3:04:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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To: Magnatron

They could have just asked Brian Williams who she was. He was at the funeral.


9 posted on 10/02/2018 3:09:22 PM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Magnatron

Figured some mean racist white conservative did her in. That, or it was Hoffa.

Thanks, will try to catch the PBS show.


10 posted on 10/02/2018 3:09:29 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Magnatron

Brian Williams attended the funeral.


11 posted on 10/02/2018 3:20:51 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: BipolarBob
We must bring the perpetrator to justice.

Hope he's not up for a SCOTUS seat!

12 posted on 10/02/2018 3:22:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Judge Crater nearby?


13 posted on 10/02/2018 3:33:12 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Magnatron

If that coffin design works that good, it’s a wonder the company went under after just a few years. It was supposed to allow bodies to be shipped in a sanitary manner. The missing detail: were the bodies embalmed or put in the casket in their natural condition? I’m planning on cremation for myself, but for those who want traditional burial, looking like you died a week ago after 150 years is quite an advertisement. The patent is long since expired. A seemingly “sure thing” for some business person to pick up and run with.


14 posted on 10/02/2018 3:48:45 PM PDT by Stirner
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

15 posted on 10/02/2018 4:04:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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>>>Where was Kavanaugh when this happened?<<<

I want to know where Brian Williams was . . .


16 posted on 10/02/2018 4:09:59 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Stirner

Too bad the soviets didn’t have this technology when they did Lenin’s tomb!


17 posted on 10/02/2018 4:42:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: Still Thinking

“We must bring the perpetrator to justice.”

I think it’s a bit late for that.


18 posted on 10/02/2018 5:34:02 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Stirner

I have read that arsenic was used as an embalming chemical back then. It preserves the body very well.

Napoleon was buried without embalming on St Helena, and when he was dug up years later, he was still in perfect condition leading many to believe he was slowly poisoned.


19 posted on 10/02/2018 5:56:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: occamrzr06

This happened in the North East, US. Yale is in the North East, US.

Kavanaugh might have been at that party.


20 posted on 10/02/2018 6:08:21 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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