Skull Found At Former Gravedigger's Home Identified In St. Petersburg, Florida
Authorities have confirmed that a skull found in a former gravedigger's home belongs to a woman buried at Royal Palm Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Florida, more than 60 years ago.Pinellas County sheriff's detectives, University of South Florida anthropologists and cemetery workers spent the morning and part of the afternoon exhuming the grave of Ruth Keaton.
The casket had deteriorated and authorities sifted through the dirt excavated from the grave to account for every bone, USF anthropology professor Erin Kimmerle said. Before the diggers reached the bones, they had sifted and collected hinges and other metal hardware from Keaton's casket.
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