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With map once lost for decades and survey equipment, project hopes to locate hundreds of unmarked graves in potter’s field
A previously lost map of many of the graves in potter’s field was discovered earlier this year. After lying anonymously under the rolling lawn of Oak Hill Cemetery’s potter’s field for ...
1991 Queens slay victim to be exhumed from potter’s field for funeral after DNA finally reveals her ID
Judy Rodriguez’s body was found Aug. 25, 1991, bound at the ankles under a large wooden board in a grassy area off two Queens ...
The ‘Boy in the Box’ was finally identified. DNA may now unravel the mystery of eight others buried next to him
Philadelphia Police are ‘awaiting results’ after taking DNA from eight victims buried in potter’s field who died in ...
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Anderson's Indigent Memorial Service honors 23 unclaimed lives, 'they are not forgotten'
the Coroner's Office held Anderson County's third annual Indigent Memorial Wall Celebration of Life at 9:30 a.m. on Old County Farm Road near Potters Field and the Old Silverbrook Cemetery.
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Hart Island is open to the public – here are other NYC areas built over mass graves
The island sits between the Bronx and Long Island and has been a public cemetery since 1869 ... built over public burial grounds known as potter’s fields. Here are a few of them: While it ...
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Over 1 million unclaimed bodies are buried on a little-known island in New York City - here's the story behind the massive graveyard
Today the cemetery is home to bodies that were never ... had been donated to science — most of which ended up in the potter's field due to sloppy record-keeping — in addition to stillborn ...
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The ‘Boy in the Box’ was finally identified. DNA may now unravel the mystery of eight others buried next to him
After being buried in the potter’s field, with a headstone inscribed with ... of the city to a featured spot just inside Ivy Hill Cemetery, under a weeping cherry tree in 1998.