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Exhuming Grave May Solve Disappearance

Becky Marzo

Exhuming Grave May Solve Disappearance

Heather Shannon

MILWAUKEE - After five long years, Karren Kraemer has new hope she'll finally have closure in her daughter Becky Marzo's disappearance. Becky, then 23, disappeared in Milwaukee in December of 2003.

She hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Kraemer now believes the Kenosha grave of Eddie Davis, a man the family never met, could hold the key to getting some answers.

"This gentleman passed away the day before my daughter disappeared, and his remains were held by the funeral home until December 26th. My daughter went missing during that time," Kraemer said.

Kraemer has publicly accused Marzo's boyfriend Carl Rodgers of killing her. It's an accusation that he and has family deny.

He was never charged with killing her.

Rodgers committed suicide last year, and left behind a note saying he never killed anyone. But Kraemer says, Rodgers' uncle owned the Kenosha funeral home that handled Eddie Davis' burial. She believes Becky might be buried with, or underneath Davis.

"I still believe there could be a correlation," Kraemer said.

Davis' widow said she, too wants answers. She agreed to have her husband's body exhumed.

"It was difficult for anybody to have a stranger walk into their home and ask them to have their husband's body exhumed. It was very upsetting, but she was very kind, and very happy to comply," Kraemer said.

Eddie Davis' grave will be exhumed on October 20.

Kraemer says a police officer will be there, and that the coffin and soil will be tested for Becky's DNA.

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