At the historic Key West Cemetery, the remains of seven unknown souls were exhumed recently from a pauper's crypt.
The Monroe County Medical Examiner's office is seeking clues to help identify seven bodies.
No one said cutting through 20 years of concrete and silence would be easy. But it was a necessary step toward some day, possibly, giving names to the dead.
Members of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Florida collected DNA samples to be entered into the FBI's National Missing Persons DNA database.
The hope is that a family member might have voluntarily submitted DNA to the database, looking for a long-lost loved one. If so, an identification could be made, bringing peace to a family.
In all, there are 28 unidentified bodies buried in the Florida Keys.
Some of the bodies have been buried for more than a quarter of a century. Investigators already have determined that none of the deceased originally lived in the Florida Keys. Beyond that, it's anyone's guess...
I guess the Keys are as nice a place as any to snuff it and be buried.
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