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- Benecke, Mark. "Spontaneous Human Combustion: Thoughts of a Forensic Biologist," Skeptical Inquirer, March-April 1998, volume 22, pages 47-51.
- FBI: Mary Hardy Reeser
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- New Light on Human Torch Mystery, BBC News.
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