Editing Harry Houdini (section)

===Proposed exhumation===
On March 22, 2007, Houdini's great-nephew (the grandson of his brother Theo) George Hardeen announced that the courts would be asked to allow [[exhumation]] of Houdini's body to investigate the possibility of Houdini being murdered by spiritualists, as suggested in the biography ''The Secret Life of Houdini''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/grandnephew-seeks-to-set-record-straight-about-houdini-s-death-1.660397 |title=Grandnephew seeks to 'set record straight' about Houdini's death |publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=March 23, 2007 |date=March 23, 2007}}</ref>
In a statement given to the [[Houdini Museum]] in Scranton, the family of Bess Houdini opposed the application and suggested it was a publicity ploy for the book.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://houdini.org/HoudiniFamilyLetter.html |title=Family Statement re: exhumation |access-date=March 26, 2007 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928100544/http://houdini.org/HoudiniFamilyLetter.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' stated that the press conference was not arranged by the family of Houdini. Instead, the ''Post'' reported, it was orchestrated by the book's authors William Kalush and [[Larry Sloman]], who had hired the public relations firm Dan Klores Communications to promote the book.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301850.html |title=Why Not Just Hold a Seance? |access-date=March 24, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |first=David |last=Segal |date=March 24, 2007}}</ref>

In 2008, it was revealed the parties involved had not filed legal papers to perform an exhumation.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2010/11/time-to-bury-houdini-exhumation.html| title=Time to bury the Houdini exhumation| access-date=April 9, 2011|website=Wild About Harry}}</ref>