An Indiana teen died in 1866. How did her skull end up in an Illinois house's walls?
DNA tests identified a skull found during home renovations in 1978 as that of an Indiana teen who died after childbirth in ...
DNA Analysis Solves Mystery Of Human Skull Found During Home Renovations: “Grave Robbing”
A woman’s skull was discovered inside the walls of a suburban Illinois home back in 1978, and now—almost 50 years later—we ...
Cold case solved: DNA helps identify skull found in wall as Indiana teen who died in 1866
The girl, Esther Granger, died when she was 17 years old in 1866. She has been laid to rest in Batavia, Illinois, where her ...
Skull found in Batavia, Illinois home in 1978 identified as teen who died in 1866
Authorities in Kane County finally solved a cold case dating back 46 years, when a human skull was found during a home ...
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Skull found in wall of Illinois home belonged to teen who died over 150 years ago: investigators
A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home ... In the 1800s, doctors were desperate to learn more about human anatomy, so they often paid top dollar for fresh corpses on which to perform ...
Skull Found In Home's Wall Identified As 19th-Century Teen After DNA Test
Investigators have determined that a skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago.
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150-year-old skull found inside wall identified as teenage girl, authorities say
The skull went forgotten until March 2021 ... that grave robbers may have dug up her body to sell it to physicians looking to ...
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An Indiana teen died in 1866. How did her skull end up in an Illinois house's walls?
was renovating his house when he knocked down a wall to reveal what appeared to be a human skull lying between the ... selling them to medical schools for anatomy study — and were rarely ...