The body, found in a Danish peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years.
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