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Body Snatchers!

  • 02-08-2012 9:45am
    #1
    CodyJarrett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭


    Outrage after body snatchers possibly linked to CULT break into crypt and kidnap remains of grandma, 98, who died in 1996

    Police are on the hunt for a group of grave robbers who broke into a mausoleum at a New Jersey cemetery and stole the body of a 98-year-old woman who was laid to rest there 14 years ago.

    Workers at the Atlantic City Cemetery in Pleasantville said the crypt’s door was pried open and that the coffin that housed the body of Pauline Spinelli was empty inside.

    Investigators believe the ghoulish crime was committed sometime between Thursday night and early Friday morning.

    Desecrated: Pauline Spinelli's body was stolen from her coffin 14 years after she was laid to rest at age 98

    ‘You gotta think…they took her out of the box and threw her in the back of their car with them,’ Spinelli's grandson, Rocco Spinelli, told NBC10.

    In life, Pauline Spinelli never wanted anyone to know how old she really was, so when she died, her family had only one date carved on her grave – the year of her passing.

    Now, Spinelli’s granddaughter Paula Lafolette wonders if that was the reason that the marauders singled out her grandmother’s crypt, which also houses the remains of her parents, two aunts and an uncle.

    ‘I can’t image why anyone would want the body of my grandmother,’ she told CBS Philly.

    Cemetery officials said the grave robbers came in during the night of July 26 or during the early morning hours of July 27 and smashed the door of crypt possibly using a large rock that was later found nearby.

    The perpetrators then cracked the marble casing protecting the casket, pried open the coffin and stole the woman’s body dressed in a powder-blue gown.

    Heartbroken family: Spinelli's grandchildren, Rocco, left, and Paula Lafolette, right, are calling on the marauders to return the remains of their beloved grandmother so she could rest in peace

    Police have searched the woods around the cemetery, but there was no sign of the missing body.

    They plan to begin working with other police departments in North Jersey that have had experience with similar cases in the past, according to the NBC40.
    In November of 2010 and February of 2011, bodies were removed from graves in Middlesex County, according to an Associated Press article in The Press of Atlantic City archives.

    In the story, an investigator is quoted as saying that the incidents may have been tied to ‘individuals involved in nontraditional religious practice.’

    Why would someone steal the dead? What would they want with a 16 year old corpse?

    I don't think I'll sleep tonight.

    What if .. just what if ..

    (imagines sound of creaky coffin opening)

    :eek:


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