A deceased Caucasian male was found in your hotel room.

The spouse of a deceased male could adopt a child who would carry on the lineage of the man's family.

Other reasons for performing ghost marriages for deceased males are dreams and séances from the spirits of the males who want to be married.

The brides were picked by the parents of the deceased males.

In 1994 Maryland police found a deceased male with extensive injuries to his face.

They matched the clothing found on the deceased male sitting in that position.

What we have is a deceased male as I've described, one gunshot to the chest.

"The Kirghiz practice levirate whereby the wife of a deceased male is very often married by a younger sibling of the deceased."

The process of matrilineal succession in Kom society is more complex if a deceased male did not have a nephew to inherit his property.