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After somebody dies, we have a funeral and “lay the body to rest,” typically through burial or cremation. However, not everyone’s rest remains undisturbed.
Bodies have often been exhumed — dug up from the ground — for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes, it’s to change their final resting places; other times it’s to get DNA to establish a familial connection to actual or supposed relatives.
Bodies are also exhumed to uncover historical mysteries and to solve murder cases, as seen on Oxygen’s new series “Exhumed,” executive produced by Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos and premiering