Houdini’s family want to exhume body for autopsy

THE circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini’s sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts.

Despite a medical explanation, rumours that the escape artist was murdered have persisted for decades.

Eighty-one years after Houdini died on Halloween 1926, his great-nephew wants to exhume the body to determine if enemies poisoned him for debunking their bogus claims of contact with the dead.