Mystery AtlasWilton M. Krogman
American physical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of forensic anthropology, consulted by St. Petersburg police on the Reeser case; his public statements of astonishment at the extent of the destruction helped fuel the case's spontaneous-combustion reputation even as later forensic explanation accounted for it.
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- Death of Mary Reeser2 July 1951
Wilton M. Krogman investigated Death of Mary Reeser — Consulted by St. Petersburg police as a physical anthropologist; described the extent of destruction as the most extraordinary case of its kind he had examined.
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Wilton M. Krogman popularised Spontaneous Human Combustion — Krogman's widely quoted public statements of astonishment at the extent of destruction in the Reeser case helped cement the case's reputation as unexplained, even as forensic explanation accounted for it.