Word: skeletonization
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...body had been very positively identified. Discovered in Schiller Park by Chicago police, the murdered, badly burned corpse was little more than a skeleton, but a Negro woman was certain it was her missing husband. A dentist was equally certain that he recognized the jaw. The woman claimed her husband's insurance...
...make triply sure, the police took the bones to Anthropologist Wilton Marion Krogman of the University of Chicago. The professor measured them, made a few calculations, then surprisingly announced that the woman and the dentist were both wrong: the skeleton was no Negro's but that of a middle-aged white laborer. Shortly afterward the missing Negro turned up alive...
...Runaway Millionaire. An 18-year-old Oklahoma half-breed Indian had disappeared. Several years later oil was discovered on land allotted to the boy, and his father claimed the royalties. The only evidence of the boy's death was a skeleton buried in Arkansas, where the father said his son had been killed riding a freight...
Within the skeleton walls of the dance hall lay a heap of debris. The roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...
Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...