Conspirators' bodies

[BettyO]

I believe that the bodies were considered (at least by Stanton) as "property" of the US Government - i.e. authorities did not want the condemned "memorialized" by any one. According to Blaine Houmes, different soil types play a large role in the disintegration of bodies, along with corresponding temperatures. These bodies were not embalmed, of course so they would speedily deteriorate.