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Two stills from 1980s television footage of human remains being recovered at New Vrindaban, identified by the 2007 uploader as those of Charles St. Denis (Chakradhari dasa)

Original broadcaster not identified; stills posted to Flickr by the user navadvip (album "New Vrindavan Crimes"), January 2007

Two frames from television footage of a police excavation. The person who posted them to Flickr in January 2007, in an album of New Vrindaban crime footage, identified the remains as those of Charles St. Denis (Chakradhari dasa). St. Denis was killed on 10 June 1983; his body had not been found when Thomas Drescher was convicted of his murder in December 1986, and published accounts date its recovery, from a grave under a creek on community land shown to investigators by Daniel Reid (Daruka), to January 1987. The frames resemble photographs published with that date. Other bodies were also exhumed at New Vrindaban in 1986 and 1987, and the original broadcast has not been identified, so the identification rests on the uploader's captions. Nothing is redacted.

Two stills from 1980s television footage of human remains being recovered at New Vrindaban, identified by the 2007 uploader as those of Charles St. Denis (Chakradhari dasa)

January 1987 · Original broadcaster not identified; stills posted to Flickr by the user navadvip (album "New Vrindavan Crimes"), January 2007

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Human skeletal remains on plastic sheeting at an excavation. The 2007 uploader captioned it "The remains of Chakradhari Das".

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  • Human skeletal remains on plastic sheeting at an excavation. The 2007 uploader captioned it "The remains of Chakradhari Das".

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  • A skull being uncovered in soil. The 2007 uploader captioned it "Police team locates Chakradhari's skull and body remains after being shown the location by Daruka".

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