Stoneman Willie, a mummified petty thief whose body had undergone an experimental embalming process, will finally be put to rest after being on display in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania for the last 128 years.
A mummified man who has been lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years has finally been given a burial after being identified as James Murphy, a New Yorker of Irish descent. Finally, the man only known as "Stoneman Willie" will be buried.
A dead man whose body sat on display for 128 years in Pennsylvania has finally been laid to rest. James Murphy—better known as "Stoneman Willie" due to his hardened.
READING: After more than a century living with a macabre mystery, the US town of Reading, Pennsylvania closed the casket on its oddest-ever resident – a mummified man who was finally buried.