Pennsylvania mummy known as 'Stoneman Willie' identified after 128 years of mystery
After more than a century of being kept at a Reading, Pennsylvania, funeral home, a corpse that was mummified has been identified, according to the funeral home. More than 128 years after he died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, a man who was accidentally mummified and left at a funeral home without any identification will finally get his long-awaited burial. Officials at Auman's Funeral Home, the Reading funeral home that has displayed what is known as "Stoneman Willie" for visitors since the body was brought there in 1895, said it has successfully identified the corpse and can now give it a burial. The funeral home has been holding special visitation hours for Willie all week in anticipation of a grand burial ceremony on Saturday, where the deceased man's name will be revealed on his tombstone, according to Kyle Blankenbiller, the funeral home's director. The body of "Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was ...