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NEW YORK — Legal paperwork necessary to dig up the body of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini from a New York City cemetery was scheduled to be filed today, the first step in an investigation into whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago.

Houdini died in Detroit at age 52 on Halloween 1926, days after he was repeatedly punched in the stomach by a college student testing the performer's abdominal muscles.

His death certificate listed him as a victim of peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. No autopsy was performed, though, and rumors that he was murdered started almost immediately.

In a biography published last year, the authors suggest the likeliest suspects were members of a group known as the Spiritualists. The magician devoted large portions of his stage show to exposing the group's fraudulent séances.