How Do You Lose 3,200 Dead People?

If you dropped dead in the middle of the city with no identification, the potter’s field would likely be your last stop.by Bess LovejoyPhotos by Billie Winter
Cari Simson first heard the rumor in the early 2000s.
Amid the dark, comfortable bars of Georgetown, and in other places where the neighborhood’s old-timers gathered, there were stories about a cemetery. It was a place that didn’t last, the old-timers said—a place where
one day, all the bodies were dug up, and