What happens to the corpse when a wraith spawn is formed?

[Jasque]

What happens to the body of a wraith's victim if it chooses to create a spawn? What happens to the victim's equipment?

My PCs will be entering a dungeon where several foolish adventurers were recently killed by a wraith and turned into spawn. I imagine the adventurer's equipment and clothing would still be on the dungeon floor, but their bodies would be missing.

Thoughts?

[The Morphling]

Why would the body be missing? The spirit becomes the incorporeal undead, not the body.

Conceivably, the body could rise as another undead, like a zombie.

[Jasque]

So, it would be a lot like a ghost. The body might rot away, but the spirit lives on.

The idea of a zombie and a wraith from the same corpse is interesting. I would house rule against that to avoid problems. For instance, what if the wraith is left alive, but the zombie destroyed. Then a resurrection spell is cast on the destroyed zombie. According to the spell's description, the zombie should be restored back to it's original life. But the spell also states that the individual can't be brought back to life because he/she is still a wraith.

But I can see the potential for a cool paradox for PCs to solve someday.