The Colebrook, New Hampshire resident could not believe the sight during a stroll through the cemetery. The gravesite had been dug up - the concrete vault broken - the casket opened - and the body had been searched. Police were notified and the investigation commenced.
The grave, and body, belonged to Eddie Nash who had died 10 years earlier of a heart attack. He was a well-respected business man who was supposedly buried with no valuables.
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But one of Eddie's daughter's, Melanie Nash, became a suspect in the case and stated to police that she and three other accomplices went to the gravesite to find what she thought was the "real will". But all the would-be thieves found in the casket was the body of Eddie Nash and some vodka and cigarettes (per nytimes.com):
Nash told police she did not receive anything when her father died and had been thinking of digging up the grave for years to prove that her sister, Susie Nash, “hid the will.” Susie Nash has said there was only one will when her father’s estate plan was done in 1995 and everyone involved knew about it.
In a written statement to police last June, Melanie Nash wrote that she met up with the others to go to the cemetery.
She wrote: “All this was done for the right reasons and I know my father would be OK with it.”
She ended her statement with: “What we all did was to dig up my father’s coffin, Eddie Nash, looking for documents. We did it with respect.”
Melanie Nash was sentenced to 18 months to three years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal mischief, interference with a cemetery, conspiracy and abuse of a corpse.
As a former Police Investigator/Prosecutor, I find it difficult to believe the judge in the case really believed that bizarre crime was carried out "with respect". Now picture yourself as that Colebrook resident taking a leisurely stroll through the graveyard - only to view that gruesome scene. Rest in peace (this time), Eddie!
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