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NEWS ABOUT: corpse

corpse stories: 14 news summaries

 Cops Probe 
 Garrido Link to 
 Murdered Hookers 

Victims found close to alleged workplace of Dugard suspect

Aug 28, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police obtained a warrant today to search the Pittsburgh, Calif., house of Jaycee Dugard's alleged kidnapper in connection with the murders of several prostitutes in the 1990s, the Los Angeles Times reports. Garrido allegedly worked at an industrial site near where the victims’ bodies were found. He also served time... More »

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California • corpse • murder • prostitute • warrant • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido

 15 More Bodies 
 Found at Crash Site 

Searches also find large amount of aircraft wreckage

Jun 8, 09 2:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Searchers have recovered 15 more bodies from the Air France 447 crash site in the Atlantic, bringing the total to 17. Brazil's military also collected large amounts of the plane's "structural components," officials tell Reuters. "Hundreds of items are being found and being stored until we know... More »

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France • Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • corpse • debris • Air France • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - A New York man’s decomposed body was found yesterday in a minivan peppered with parking tickets issued by officers who apparently didn’t notice the corpse, the Daily News reports. “The window was cracked open,” said the daughter of George Morales. “I don't understand how... More »

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New York City • crime • corpse • parking ticket • New York City Police Department • minivan • decomposed

Woman Stashes Mom's Body
in Freezer for
20 Years

Daughter feared immigration inquiry

May 27, 09 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - A London woman hid her dead mother’s body in a freezer for two decades, apparently out of fear of immigration authorities, reports the Daily Mirror. The daughter, now 83, was worried that if the public knew her mother had died, officials would find out she’d been in the... More »

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immigration • London • illegal immigrant • corpse • body • Britain • Daulat Irani • freezer

 Corpses 
 Having Sex 
 Sparks Uproar 

Popular traveling exhibit of bodies triggers new controversy

May 7, 09 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversial traveling exhibit of preserved bodies has sparked a storm of controversy with a new addition of corpses having sex, reports the Guardian. "It's not meant to be sexually stimulating," said creator Gunther von Hagens, who opens the Berlin exhibit to the public today. German politicians and... More »

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Germany • Berlin • corpse • pornography • sex • Grey's Anatomy • bodies • Gunther von Hagens • exhibition

(Newser) - A Taiwanese medical school is responding to the island nation’s shortage of cadavers for study by bringing the family of the deceased fully into the program, the Wall Street Journal reports. At Tzu Chi University, medical students meet with donors' families and even compose poems to their “... More »

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China • surgery • Taiwan • corpse • donation • Buddhism • medical schools • cadaver • Tzu Chi University

Families of Missing Want 'Stew Maker' to Help

Man who dissolved bodies may be able to identify kidnap, murder victims

Feb 9, 09 2:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Families with loved ones missing in Mexico are hoping that "the stew maker" can give them closure, the Los Angeles Times reports. A day after the arrest of Santiago Meza Lopez—who confessed to dissolving at least 300 bodies for drug cartels—dozens of people lobbied Tijuana police... More »

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Mexico • corpse • violence • Mexican drug war • Tijuana • body • drug cartel • missing person

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein’s body was mutilated after his execution, says a guard present at his internment. “There were six stab wounds on his body,” two of them to his back, the Iraqi told the London Times. The guard said 300 people witnessed the desecrated body, but Iraqi officials... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • corpse • execution • burial • mutilation

Freed Militants Vow to Continue Fight With Israel

Fighters aim to follow steps of 'martyred'
Hezbollah leader

Jul 17, 08 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A day after being freed in a prisoner exchange, Hezbollah fighters vowed to continue to fight Israel as they prayed at the grave of a fallen commander, the AP reports. “At this moment, I am yearning more than before to confront them,” Samir Qantar, who had been jailed... More »

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Israel • Lebanon • Hezbollah • corpse • Beirut • Mideast peace talks • prisoner exchange • Samir Qantar

Final Doomsday Cultists Exit Russian Cave

Stench of corpses trumped need
to await apocolypse

May 16, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The final nine members of a Russian doomsday cult holed up in a cave to await the apocalypse (coming this month) have abandoned ship, unable to stand the stench of two people who had died. Thirty-five followers of a self-declared prophet calling himself Father Pyotr climbed into the cave in... More »

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cancer • Russia • psychiatry • corpse • cult • caves

Mom, Kids Lived With Corpse
of Woman, 90

'Bishop' of tiny sect
told her to pray to bring dead back to life

May 10, 08 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A  woman and her self-proclaimed "bishop" have been arrested after cops found the decomposing corpse of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in the house she shared with her two kids, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. The woman said the bishop of her tiny religious group told her her... More »

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Wisconsin • corpse • child abuse • cult

 No Rest for the ... Faithful? 
Italy's Padre Pio On Display

700K already signed up to view exhumed Italian saint

Apr 24, 08 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Beloved saint Padre Pio, exhumed in March after 40 years, is now on display in southern Italy, where 700,000 faithful have signed up to view his remains, BBC reports. The archbishop who ran the exhumation marveled at the body: “The knees, hands, mittens, and nails are clearly visible.... More »

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Catholic Church • Italy • corpse • sainthood • exhumation • Padre Pio • stigmata

UPDATED

Corpse Found
in Chicago
Isn't Peterson

But cops haven't ID'd decomposed woman

Jan 27, 08 2:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The badly decomposed body of a woman found yesterday in a Chicago industrial lot is not Stacy Peterson, reports the Chicago Tribune, the suburban mom whose husband, Drew, is suspected in her October disappearance. Officials also determined that the body was not another area housewife, Lisa Stebic, missing since April.... More »

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Chicago • corpse • homicide • Lisa Stebic • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • missing person • blue barrel

Chinese Killer Supplied
Corpse Brides

"Weddings for the dead" making a comeback in rural areas

May 18, 07 9:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities have arrested a man said to have killed six women in order to sell their bodies to families seeking "ghost brides"  to marry their deceased sons. He and three other corpse traders are reputed to be members of an underground supply network prompted by  a growing... More »

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China • corpse • murder • ghost bride • grave robbing

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