FBI said 1. 95. 1 death wasn't 'spontaneous human combustion,' but mystery persists. As a St. Petersburg Times reporter from 1. Jerry Blizin covered some of Pinellas County's biggest stories. Perhaps no story was bigger than the mysterious death of Mary Hardy Reeser in the summer of 1. It was called the . All of a sudden, the sleepy little city was getting national attention. The cinder woman was Mary Hardy Reeser, a 6. St. Petersburg apartment on July 2, 1. The case remains open at police headquarters so it is, as it was half a century ago, a fascinating tale without a satisfactory ending. A Human Interest Story is a type of news story that focuses on a person, group of people, and/or culture in an emotional manner. The goal is to create an empathy. The working title of this film was The Human Interest Story. After the film's initial release as Ace in the Hole, Paramount changed the title to The Big Carnival, the. Sometimes this means simply reconstructing a complicated story. Anglo-American interest in. Philosophy of history.The human remains found at the fire scene (and almost missed by firefighters) included Mrs. Reeser's left foot, clad in an undamaged black satin slipper, a portion of her skull and part of her spine. The piece of skull was described at the time as . Petersburg police in August 1. Mrs. Reeser's own body fat provided the fuel for the fire that consumed her. The FBI said there was no . Reeser was visited shortly before her death by her physician son, Richard Reeser. She was depressed because she thought she wasn't going to be able to travel north for the summer. She hadn't eaten dinner and told her son she had taken two Seconal tablets and might take two more before retiring. According to the FBI, the sedated widow apparently sat down in an upholstered chair and fell asleep while smoking a cigarette. The cigarette set fire to her acetate nightgown and housecoat. Though the upholstered chair had fire- retardant treatment, it burned, too. At the end of the fire Mrs. The Problem with the 1951 Refugee Convention. Decisions are made on a credibility of story basis. Forester's story, Bogey's Oscar. Reeser was gone, and nothing remained of the chair but the springs. There was a layer of soot that ringed the upper part of the apartment walls. It looked very much like what results from a long- burning candle or a kerosene lamp. Electric outlets above this line had melted, but the switches below were intact. An electric clock on a table had stopped at 4: 2. It worked when plugged in elsewhere. Executive editor Tom Harris printed up hundreds of copies of the story, and the Police Department distributed these reprints for a long time afterward to people who wrote to them about the case. Many were unsatisfied by the FBI report. At least one experienced fire researcher also disagreed. Krogman, a professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, happened to be visiting in Bradenton when the story broke. Krogman wrote that he had investigated more than 3. Reeser's skull had shrunk. The skulls have exploded into hundreds of pieces or been abnormally swollen. Le. Moyne Snyder, a medico- legal expert for the Michigan State Police, who wrote that human fatty tissue was indeed highly combustible, particularly in heavy people. Reeser weighed 1. Yet there were all sorts of anomalies. Why did a pile of newspapers stacked next to Mrs. Reeser's chair remain unscorched and intact? Why had there been no widespread smoke or odors? Only one person had smelled anything. Landlady Pansy M. Carpenter, who also lived at 1. Cherry St. NE, thought she smelled smoke about 5 a. She turned off the pump and went back to bed. At 8 a. m. It was Western Union with a telegram for Mrs. Ironically, the message said all arrangements had just been made for her to come up north. Carpenter tried to deliver the telegram to her tenant. That's when the mystery began to unfold. The doorknob to the Reeser apartment was too hot to touch. Thus began a story that even now is fodder for books, supermarket weeklies, sensationalist magazines, blogs and Internet sites. Jerry Blizin now lives in Tarpon Springs. FBI said 1. 95. 1 death wasn't 'spontaneous human combustion,' but mystery persists 1.
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