Smith's Body Embalmed, Locked Up
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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Her final resting place in limbo, Anna Nichole Smith's body was embalmed Saturday and then locked away in a medical examiner's office.
After being searched for cameras and signing statements promising not to talk about, write about or draw any images of the model's corpse, two embalmers frm a Fort Lauderdale funeral parlor began the work about 9:15 a.m. and finished around noon.
"They did a good job, and the body's able to be viewed," Dr. Joshua Perper, the Broward constituency medical examiner, told the Miami Herald. "She will look virtually like she looked in real life."
Following the embalming, Smith's body was placed in a black body bag and sealed with evidence tape, Perper said, and then stored in a refrigerated room.
''The body's well under lock and key and inaccessible to anybody who doesn't have the key,'' Perper said.
The judge has called for more hearings beginning Tuesday to determine who will take custody of the remains. |
