
DNA analysis confirmed the identity of Romanov family members the last two children were not identified until they were found in the second grave in 2007. In 19, the remains of the bodies were found in two unmarked graves in a field called Porosenkov Log. The investigator concluded that the imperial family's remains had been cremated at the mineshaft Ganina Yama, since evidence of fire was found there. In 1919, the White movement commissioned an investigation but were unable to find the unmarked gravesite. The bodies were taken to the Koptyaki forest, where they were stripped, buried, and mutilated with grenades to prevent identification. Also murdered that night were retainers who had accompanied them, notably Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov. The Russian Imperial Romanov family ( Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918. One of the Cobblepot descendents, Oswald, eventually took on the guise of the Penguin and became a recurring foe of the Batman.Clockwise from top: the Romanov family, Ivan Kharitonov, Alexei Trupp, Anna Demidova, and Eugene Botkin In the continuity of the 2004-08 animated series The Batman, Newcastle was the ancestral home of the Cobblepot family.John was barely able to escape from the club with his life, but the experience traumatized him so greatly, that he spent the next two years at the Ravenscar Mental Hospital (See Newcastle Crew for more comprehensive details concerning this event). John was unable to control Nergal, and the demon killed Astra Logue, consigning her soul to Hell. However, he made a critical error in the summoning spell, and unwittingly invoked a powerful demon called Nergal. Unable to successfully accomplish the task on their own, John elected to summon a more powerful demonic entity in the hopes of destroying the one possessing Astra. In 1978, Amateur occultist John Constantine and a group of friends (informally known as the Newcastle Crew), attempted to help young Astra Logue by exorcising a demon that had taken possession of her body. In recent years, Newcastle is known as the location of a grisly exorcism gone wrong.
