Jackson To Be Buried In Batesville Casket Updated: 7:26 AM EDT Jul 3, 2009 Editorial Standards ⓘ BATESVILLE, Ind. — An area company will provide the casket in which Michael Jackson will be buried.

Workers carefully moved Franklin's polished bronze casket from the rotunda of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and loaded it in to a 1940 Cadillac LaSalle hearse.

Gyulafia said takes up to 150 hours of labor to construct, customize and hand-polish the casket to achieve its unique mirror finish. Michael Jackson's Promethean casket cost about $30,000 ...

Michael Jackson will be buried in a gleaming gold and bronze custom-made, hand-polished casket from the Batesville Casket Company, which has been in business for 120 years. Workers say the coffin was ...