Who Hid a Fresh Body in a Civil War Grave?

From Ask A Mortician.

Was this a story of graverobbing or gravedepositing?

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SELECTED SOURCES/FURTHER READING

Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm-Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Bass, Bill; Jefferson, Jon. Berkley Books, New York, 2003

"Bill Bass Wants Your Body"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/07/04/william-bass-wants-your-body/73b45d8e-c94e-453a-90d4-1ee945816ae8/

"What happens to bones from UT’s famous ‘Body Farm’? They’re cleaned, boxed and studied"
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/life/2018/11/14/university-tennessee-body-farm-william-bass-donated-skeletons-forensic-science-corpse-research/1918243002/

"The mystery of Col. William Shy’s burial in a cast iron casket"
https://www.williamsonherald.com/features/w_life/the-mystery-of-col-william-shy-s-burial-in-a-cast-iron-casket/article_11504706-e487-11ed-947c-3b074a653e2d.html

"Unearthing Stories for 20 Years at the ‘Body Farm’"
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/body-farm-20th-anniversary-032019

"If These Bones Could Talk: The Stories Human Skeletons Can Tell"
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/08/23/412923674/if-these-bones-could-talk-the-stories-human-skeletons-can-tell

"BODY FARMS UNRAVEL MYSTERIES OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION"
https://themobmuseum.org/blog/body-farms-unravel-mysteries-of-human-decomposition/