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18186001

item number: 219596
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Created: October 21, 2009

Published: November 06, 2009
Sunderland, Maryland United States
NEGATIVE# josephm 210324--SLUG-ME-EXHUME-DATE--10/22/2009--LOCATION- Mount Hope United Methodist Church, Sunderland, Maryland -PHOTOGRAPHER-MARVIN JOSEPH/TWP--CAPTION--The Morsell family is having the body of their deceased uncle Charles Dunbar Morsell exhumed for DNA testing after a woman named Patsy Reid was awarded his family farm and promptly sold it to a local real estate agent. Patsy Reid claims she is the biological daughter of Charles Dunbar Morsell due to an illicit affair. The Morsell family is fighting to prove Patsy Reid is a fake.

by: Marvin Joseph/twp THE WASHINGTON POST