The body of 15-year-old Henry Bedard, Jr., whose 1974 murder remains unsolved, was exhumed Wednesday at a cemetery in Swampscott, Massachusetts, I-Team sources say.

An excavator was seen at Swampscott Cemetery next to an open gravesite, along with tents from the Swampscott Police Department and the Essex County District Attorney.

Police and Essex D.A. Paul Tucker said they were at the cemetery as part of a case they were working on "for quite a while." Tucker confirmed that a body was exhumed and it was being taken to Boston for an autopsy. He did not say whose body it was.

Tucker said there's no significance for why they chose this day for the exhumation but added, "the advances in technology and science, particularly with DNA, has led us to make the request for the court order of the

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