Oregon man calls Reed skull switch idea 'ridiculous'

OREGON - The idea that the skull in Mary Jane Reed's casket belongs to anyone but her is "ridiculous," said a retired Oregon mortician who helped remove the body of the murdered 17-year-old from a ditch along Devil's Backbone Road. Reed and her companion, Stanley Skridla, 28, of Rockford, were shot to death June 24, 1948. Their bodies were found in separate locations, his June 25 and hers June 29, and their homicides never have been solved. Former Oregon Mayor Mike Arians, a friend of the Reed family, said a forensic anthropologist hired by the family examined some of Reed's exhumed remains and concluded that the skull from her coffin was not hers. He said he has asked the FBI and the Federal Bureau for Victims of Violent Crimes to look in