In 2011,construction workers who were excavating an abandoned lot in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, New York, and unearthed a human body clothed in a white gown and knee-tall socks.
The body was in such a beneficial condition it was initially thought that the construction workers stumbled upon the remains of a homicide victim.“It was recorded as a crime scene,” Scott Warnasch, who was then a forensic archaeologist for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, or told the New York Post. “A buried body on an abandoned lot sounds pretty straightforward.”It turns out,however, that the nearly perfectly preserved body belonged to somebody who was born decades before the Civil War.
Warnasch found distinctive metal fragments at the site, and which offered clues about the body and led to the identification of a woman named Martha Peterson.
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Source: inquisitr.com