Houdini to be exhumed?

[javasaurus]

Houdini died Halloween, 1926, supposedly due to a ruptured appendix. His still-living relatives aren't so sure. The master escape-artist had some very serious enemies, and there has long been speculation that he was murdered, perhaps poisoned. According to this MSN article, he is to be exhumed for further examination (there was no autopsy of his body in 1926).

My question: what if they open the casket and he's not there?

Comments

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

That would be so apropriate. :D

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

...my question: What kind of a poison do they expect will be lingering after eighty-one years?!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

if it was in the blood, it'll be in the bones. such things can still be detected after hundreds of years.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

many. The article I ready specifically mentioned arsenic as one example.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

The ultimate escape. :-)

[javasaurus.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be the first time, eh? Some chap pulled it off about 2000 years ago...