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How to ID an Old Corpse? With This 'Secret' Fluid

In crime-infested Mexico, it comes in handy

(Newser) - A forensic expert in one Mexico's most violent cities has found a way to cull secrets from corpses that have gone dry, AFP reports. Alejandro Hernandez, who handles waves of dead bodies in Ciudad Juarez, lowers them into a homemade solution that makes their murder wounds and facial features...

Woman Keeps Her Dead Husband for 3 Years

And tells the children to take care of it

(Newser) - Here's a macabre tale: A woman in central Russia kept her husband's dead body for three years and told her kids to talk to him and feed him, AFP reports. When her husband, a Pentecostal missionary, died in 2009, she simply left him on a bed in their...

3 More Bodies Found on Cruise Ship

28 bodies have now been found aboard Costa Concordia

(Newser) - An Italian official says searchers have found three bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which struck a reef off an Italian island in January. Today's development raises to 28 the number of bodies found. Four people remain missing and are presumed dead. Franco Gabrielli, the...

Bodies Clogging Tripoli Spark Disease Fears

Decay and summer heat threatens to unleash health disaster

(Newser) - As fighting continues in Tripoli for the future of Libya, bodies are piling up in the streets—from combat, reprisals, and innocents just caught in the crossfire. And as the corpses decompose in the summer heat, they are becoming such a health risk that removing the bodies has become the...

Japan's Search for Bodies Enters Evacuation Zone

Officers race against time as bodies decompose

(Newser) - Clad in protective suits, some 340 police officers began the search for bodies within the 12-mile evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima plant today. Nearly four weeks have passed since the earthquake, and some 4,200 who lived within the zone remain missing, reports the New York Times . Officials now say...

4 Bodies Found on Long Island Beach Spark Serial Killer Fears

One body could be missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert

(Newser) - The decomposed remains of four bodies found on a Long Island beach have sparked fears that a serial killer on the loose. The first body, believed to be that of a 24-year-old prostitute missing since May, was found Saturday, the New York Post reports. Three more were found within a...

Gaga to Bring Corpses on Tour
 Gaga to Bring Corpses on Tour 
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Jun 23, 2010 10:53 AM CDT

Gaga to Bring Corpses on Tour

Just when you thought she couldn't grab any more attention

(Newser) - How could Lady Gaga possibly get even more outlandish? Easy: Bring corpses on stage. Gaga plans to team up with scientist Gunther von Hagens, the doctor who famously preserves dead bodies for the Body Worlds exhibition, for next month’s Las Vegas stop on her Monster Ball tour. “Gaga...

Stacked Bodies Found in Funeral Home Garage

Maryland funeral home loses license over treatment of corpses

(Newser) - Inspectors visiting a Maryland funeral home were shocked to find about 40 bodies stacked on top of each other in a garage, leaking fluid. The bodies, some of which had been donated for scientific research, were awaiting cremation, but "even somebody who donates their body to science... should be...

Women Try to Take Dead Man on Plane

Pair gets arrested after guards flag guy in wheelchair

(Newser) - Turns out flying is a hassle alive or dead: Two German women were arrested Saturday after trying to board a plane in Liverpool with the body of a dead relative in tow. Airport staff noticed something was amiss when they tried to check in a man who was in a...

Teens at Easter Egg Hunt Find Dead Body

Grisly discovery made in Des Moines park

(Newser) - An Easter egg hunt came to a startling end for two teenagers who accompanied their younger siblings to the event: They found a body in a Des Moines park. The unidentified man didn't appear to be a victim of foul play, police said. "I guess the children who found...

FBI: 2 Bodies Found at Austin Site

One believed to be pilot; other may be missing employee

(Newser) - An FBI spokesman confirms tonight that two bodies have been found at the site of today’s plane crash in Austin, Texas, with one thought to be of the pilot, Joseph Andrew Stack. Officials can’t confirm that the other is that of the federal employee still missing, the American...

Cops: Body Is Missing Fla. Lottery Winner

Abraham Shakespeare went missing in April after $30M haul

(Newser) - Florida police confirmed today that the body found under a concrete slab in a rural backyard is that of Abraham Shakespeare, 43, who disappeared nine months ago after winning $30 million in the Florida Lottery. The home Shakespeare was found behind belongs to the boyfriend of a woman who befriended...

Haitians Pile Bodies in the Streets
 Haitians Pile Bodies 
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Jan 13, 2010 9:39 AM CST

Haitians Pile Bodies in the Streets

Thousands expected lost, including archbishop and UN official

(Newser) - Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital today after a powerful earthquake yesterday destroyed most of Port-au-Prince, reducing to rubble schools, shacks, the National Palace and the UN peacekeeping headquarters alike. Untold numbers were still trapped. It seemed clear that the death toll from the magnitude-7.0...

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