re: Wife of "Walking Tall" Buford Pusser exhumed for autopsy 56 years later

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What would be in the coffin after 56 years? Just bones at that point?

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Supposedly embalming preserves the body.

I don't that much about it but I remember that was something they talked about in the popular documentary The Staircase. That was the film where the guy's wife died "falling" down the stairs but had injuries consistent with a beating and 20 years earlier his neighbor and friend had also died the exact same way over in Germany. They dug her up too and did an autopsy.