Coroners get help identifying old bodies
(AP)
AP - The fully clothed corpse lay face down, floating in a swirl of water where the south bank of Buffalo Bayou runs through downtown Houston. The year was 1957 and the young man's body was deemed too decomposed for an autopsy. He received a pauper's burial in unmarked Grave 5 in a county-owned cemetery. Two years later, the now-defunct Houston Press newspaper published a story headlined "Who Is The Man In Grave 5 In Potter's Field?"

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