How To Exhume A Grave In Five Steps
dir. Ren Ohlmeier
2026
Running time: 20 min.
Trailer
In January of 2025 Henderick Morton first heard about a 54-year-old unidentified body in his hometown’s graveyard. Naturally, the journalism college student decided he was the one to investigate and discover the identity of this body. How to Exhume a Grave in Five Steps shows the journey of the six-month process of convincing the town and forensic anthropologists to come, exhume, and identify the unidentified victim of the first ever Amtrak derailment and begin to face how the idea of what a 19-year-old with an idea can do.
Ren Ohlmeier
Ren Ohlmeier is a filmmaker and photographer from Denver, Colorado. Growing up near the mountains led Ren to finding photography and later filmmaking. With the love of cameras and creating things of the outdoors, Ren graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor's in Documentary and Photojournalism. After graduation Ren is headed back to their homestate to begin creating projects around the south-metro area of Denver.