question about DNA and bodies

[Phil Carter]

Hello all,

I think I may be right in saying that in some cases, their remains are not actually precisely known as to where they lay anymore. A few have plaques to remember the rough place of burial. And, again, I could be wrong, but I seem to remember a couple being buried in unmarked paupers graves?

So DNA would be impossible in their cases.

best wishes

Phil

[lynn cates]

fluids

Hello Pontius. Some (all?) of them were checked for semen. No dice. (One victim was remarked to have "clean thighs." No doubt, the doctor suspected the truth LONG before serial killers were shown to masturbate on their victims.)

It is likely that the primary DNA would not show up, but the mitochondrial might.

I wonder who would have to give permission for exhumation?

The best.
LC

[Pontius2000]

just wondering if it has ever been considered to exhume and examine the bodies of the victims? weren't they likely to have been buried in the clothes they were wearing at the time of their deaths? couldn't any blood, hair, saliva, semen, or possibly even fingerprints be lifted 120 years after the fact?