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Smithsonian experts put a name to a face in pre-Civil War era forensic case

A team of researchers led by Doug Owsley, forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, has determined the identity of a pre-Civil War era individual buried in a cast iron coffin that was discovered in Washington, D.C., in 2005 by a utility crew. After a complete forensic examination in 2005 and two years of genealogical research, the boy in the iron coffin has been identified as William Taylor White, a 15-year-old from Accomack County, Va.,

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