and set fire to her nightclothes. "Once the body starts to burn," the FBI wrote in its report, "there is enough fat and other inflammable substances to permit varying amounts of destruction to take place. Sometimes this destruction by burning will proceed to a degree which results in almost complete combustion of the body." Personal life Mary Reeser was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania and married Dr. Richard Reeser (b. 1874/5). Their only surviving child, also Dr. Richard Reeser, was born in Pennsylvania in 1910 or 1911. She was buried in the Chestnut Hill Cemetery outside Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. References External links People from St. Petersburg, Florida 1884 births 1951 deaths Deaths from fire in the United States Spontaneous human combustion