‘The Woman in the Iron Coffin’: Body ‘perfectly preserved’ for 150 years is identified

The identity of a 150-year-old body discovered in New York City in 2011 has been revealed, the New York Post reports. On October 4, 2011, construction workers “assumed they had hit a pipe” as they took a backhoe into an excavation pit in Elmhurst, Queens, and hit iron, according to the newspaper. However, when the …