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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers may have finally cracked the identity of a mummified body from Austria that’s long been the subject of speculation.

The team concluded that the mummified body was that of Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, an aristocrat who was a monk before becoming the parish vicar at St. Thomas am Blasenstein for about six years.

The L.A. coroner's office sees two to three of these nearly mummified bodies every year and nearly 300 John or Jane Does, of which they're able to identify about 90 percent, Winter said.