It was 5 a.m. when the phone rang at the home of a Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter. "It's going to happen!" said an excited man on the line, an attorney for Marina Oswald Porter. "Meet me at the ...

Less than two hours after unearthing the concrete vault that housed the body of Wilma June Nissen, Lyon County Sheriff Blythe Bloemendaal was disappointed to find a coffin filled with water.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Jennifer Mack, lead bioarcheologist, said cast iron caskets were uncommon in institutional cemeteries because of their cost.

A 19th Century obsession with people being accidentally buried alive may have led to a 24-year-old woman being exhumed from a Sussex churchyard. It is alleged to have happened in 1816 at St Andrew's ...

A horse-drawn hearse arrives carrying the coffin containing the remains of eight 17th-century children at the reconstructed Catholic church Historic St. Mary's City, Md. on Sept. 20. The children were ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's remains were exhumed on Thursday from the state mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen where they have lain since his death more than four decades ...