
The Great Sheedy Murder Trial
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Importance of Morphine
embalming really became popular around the Civil War time, which would have been 20 something years before this. So someone of his stature, however sleazy he was, good chance that it was embalmed. But there's still chemical processes that go on that degrade all these various drugs in the system. This is now where you have to resort to hair fingernails for drugs that are being chronically abused.
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