For all his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: He died on Halloween 1926, apparently from a punch to the stomach that ruptured his appendix. But rumors that he was murdered have persisted for decades. Eighty-one years after Houdini's death, his great-nephew wants the escape artist's body exhumed to determine if enemies poisoned him for debunking their bogus claims of contact with the dead.
"It needs to be looked at," George Hardeen told The Associated Press. "His death shocked the entire nation, if not the world. Now, maybe it's time to take a second look."
Houdini's family scheduled a news conference for Friday to give details on the plans. Prominent New York lawyer Joseph Tacopina is helping clear any legal hurdles to the exhumation
Who would want to murder Houdini? Possibly a group known as the Spiritualists, unhappy with his financial support to expose their fraudulent seances.
Comments like he would get his just desserts were made and the group was fond of arsenic poisoning.
At his death, it was thought a punch in the stomach had caused his appendix to burst and he had died from perilonitis. Arsenic poisoning would still be detectable.
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I am a big fan and am interested in anything about Harry.
ReplyDeleteonly if the entire family wants it done. it will be devastating to any who don't, I wouln't want to know such a thing were being done to my distantt relatives even if they we're dead before I was born.
ReplyDeleteDigging him up probably won't prove anything, exept possible poisoning. I hope the remaining relative are content to receive an autopsy report and not be there. After all these years it's going to be prett grim
What difference does it make now? Good gawd. Leave him in the dirt and forget about it.
ReplyDeleteThat idiot is just looking for some money.
Hey Dewey, where are you?
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