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Feds secretly exhume bodies after looting at Civil War-era fort. “Federal officials learned of the looting in November 2004, when Don Alberts, a retired historian for Kirtland Air Force Base, tipped them off about a macabre possession he’d seen at Brecheisen’s home about 30 years earlier.  Alberts described seeing the mummified remains of a black soldier with patches of brown flesh clinging to facial bones and curly hair on top of its skull. Alberts said the body had come from Fort Craig.” I would have poured concrete over the area, memorialized it with plaques, and let them rest in place.

04/09/08 • 06:55 AM • HistoryHuman RightsLawSanta Fe Local • No Comments • No Trackbacks

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