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Philly police will exhume the bodies of 8 unidentified homicide victims from a potter’s field this week for DNA tests

Philadelphia police hope to identify the eight victims, who have been buried in a potter's field in Northeast Philadelphia for decades.

Philadelphia police, federal investigators, and forensic specialists are exhuming eight bodies from a potter's field in Northeast Philadelphia through Friday.
Philadelphia police, federal investigators, and forensic specialists are exhuming eight bodies from a potter's field in Northeast Philadelphia through Friday.Read moreJose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer