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Exhumation of Bodies Set to Begin on Monday (28-Oct-2013)
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The process of identifying two young women murdered in 1968 will begin Monday when a forensic anthropologist starts digging up two graves in Berks County's potter's field.
Coroner Dennis J. Hess said a backhoe will remove about 4 feet of ground from the approximate location where an old map shows the women were buried. Then Dr. Frederick Snow will begin the painstaking task of uncovering the remains at the site off Cedar Top Road in Cumru Township.
Snow will extract DNA, which will be sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, Hess said.
The remains could be those of two Philadelphia friends who went missing in 1968, he said.
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