The corpse been a fixture at a Reading funeral home for decades.
The body of"Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was accidentally mummified by undertakers, lies on display at the local funeral home that has been his resting place for 128 years in Reading, Penn., Oct. 1, 2023.More than 128 years after he died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, a man who was accidentally mummified and left at a funeral home without any identification will finally get his long-awaited burial.
The body of"Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was accidentally mummified by undertakers, lies on display at the local funeral home that has been his resting place for 128 years in Reading, Penn., Oct. 1, 2023."I think it's the honorable thing to do," Blankenbiller told ABC News on Wednesday. "It is bittersweet for us already.
The body of"Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was accidentally mummified by undertakers, is carried in a coffin to take part in a parade commemorating the 275th anniversary of the incorporation of the municipality of Reading, Penn., Oct. 1, 2023.He said such petitions continued being granted up until the 1950s, when the state approved for the body to remain at the funeral home without a set date.
After a lot of digging, Blankenbiller said they were able to determine his identity with "99%" certainty.
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