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In 2021, Carolyn Dunn Moudy was identified as the woman whose body Davie Police found floating in a canal in 1975 after exhuming her body from Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Davie in 2019.
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Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2026
Townspeople believed that one of the Brown women was leaving their final resting place to kill members of their family, and exhumed their bodies in turn.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
In 2018, investigators exhumed his remains and matched his DNA to several unsolved cases.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
His decision to exhume skeletons in late January 1968 proved his undoing as a prison superintendent.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
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Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2026
Townspeople believed that one of the Brown women was leaving their final resting place to kill members of their family, and exhumed their bodies in turn.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
In 2018, investigators exhumed his remains and matched his DNA to several unsolved cases.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2026
His decision to exhume skeletons in late January 1968 proved his undoing as a prison superintendent.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhume
unearth
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Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany's larger states.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Exhume.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhume. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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