Comments on: The Stories Behind 5 Famous Exhumations

By: Debbie Snowdy

Debbie Snowdy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:25:43 +0000

What a great Article.

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:25:14 +0000

No exhumation here, properly speaking, but that’s because there was no burial. Circus magnate John Ringling died in 1936; his wife Mable had died in 1929. He left his property to the state of Florida and it became the Ringling Art Museum and Ca d’Zan house museum in Sarasota. He had asked that he and Mable be buried on the grounds of the museum and home. However, between squabbling family members and a law that no one could be buried on state-owned land without special permission of the legislature (even the person who donated the land), John and Mable’s bodies fell into legal limbo. Finally, in 1991 — 72 years after Mable had died and 65 years after John died — the Florida legislature acted and they were buried, as he wished, on the grounds of the Ringling Museum. In the meantime, they had been stored for over half a century at the local coroner’s, in a bottom drawer of the morgue.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:48:53 +0000

I heard of Eva Peron’s body whereabouts…..some woman even claimed that she was Eva’s daughter and was hiding the body…..Now in Argentina, its taboo to even visit Eva’s burial site. Whatever her husband did to be exiled, Evita obiously paid the price. No matter what beliefs you have, its just common sense to respect someone who died….but as always humanity sucks.