My Job

Sometimes as a reporter you have to go places and see things you would rather skip. I covered an exhumation last week for the newspaper. Can you spot me in this photo, which ran in the paper with my story? It’s the only time I can remember that I was in a picture that made it to print. I usually try to watch the photographer and stay out of any shots. I failed to do that this time. Zac Lehr shot the photo and The Morning News owns the copyright to the image.

Witnessing an exhumation is about as bad as you’d imagine. In this case, they removed the body from the casket at the cemetery to put it in the medical examiner’s vehicle. If you want to see more photos of the exhumation go to the photographers’ blog on the paper’s Web site. You’ll have to scroll down a few entries. (There aren’t any shots of the body.)