
"J.B.," as he is known from his initials inscribed on a brass plaque on his coffin, was originally from Connecticut. He now rests in the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. A forensic anthropologist discovered that someone had jumbled J.B.'s bones into a skull and crossbones pattern, a practice known to identify a vampire. J.B. was later found to have tuberculosis - a disease that ties many vampire cases together as a result of the chatacteristics of death.
