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6-D pb the MIAMI HERALD Sunday' October 31 1976 Top Body Snatchers Could Rob Grave in Hour Prof Says tain cadavers Savitt says "Today medical schoools including the University of Florida obtain bodies from donors and potential donors who will their bodies to Savitt said And no longer do the ghost and goblin-like figures lurk in the graveyards at night tuntil dawn until the body completely he said The problem of grave robbing was resolved at the end of 19th Century when states starting with Massachusetts began passing laws permitting medical schools to dissect bodies of unclaimed dead grave robbers also took elaborate precautions to keep the grieving family from noticing the raid arrangements and stone arrangements on the grave were he said was thrown onto a canvas sheet spread next to the grave and all incriminating signs of clothing bloodstained grass and the like were thrown back into the grave WELL-TRAINED team of resurrectionists could rob a grave in an Savitt said the public attempted to thwart ghouls by putting heavy stones or planks into the grave as it was being filled and by using iron coffins or vaults of heavy stone with iron doors for burial armed guards were hired to watch a grave from sunset GAINESVILLE Fla (UPI) Those ghosts and goblins flitting through moonlit graveyards during the 1800s says Todd Savitt They were body snatchers Savitt a University Of Florida professor likes to debunk some of the myths of Halloween at this time of year for his classes of medical students learning the psycho-Togical historical and cultural aspects of their profession Strong social religious and legal prohibitions against exhuming and dissecting human bodies at the turn of the 19th Century forced anatomy teachers or their grave robbers to stalk graveyards at night to ob ROBBERS called followed a standard he says would map out the grave site in the daytime while pretending to be hunting or grieving night three men would return with a wagon The driver would drop two men off and return when the job was cleaned up since a wagon in a graveyard late at night would attract Savitt said the graves had to be fresh because the corpse began to decompose after five days The WDnaft Os Broker? 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