Exhumations can help uncover long-buried secrets. So why are so few done in Ohio?
Exhumations are a rarely used tool, with most Ohio counties reporting doing none in the past decade.
Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis, Akron Beacon Journal
Published
11:15 am UTC Dec. 16, 2020
When Mike Metcalf learned police were exhuming the body of his sister whose death was ruled a suicide in 1985 he thought, “Why?”
Margaret Purk s family always suspected her husband had a hand in her death, but a coroner s ruling had closed the case. How could her remains change anyone s mind 26 years later?
They did, and Scott Purk is now in prison for her murder.