NEWBURYPORT, Mass. - A young man performing court-ordered community service in a cemetery was charged with breaking into a Civil War-era tomb and desecrating remains by pulling apart a skeleton and posing for pictures with the skull and other bones.
"It's bizarre, absolutely bizarre," police Lt. Richard Siemasko said. "I can't even imagine what was in his head. This is just a whole new level of weird for me."
Neil J. Goodwin Jr., 19, of Salisbury, was working at the city's Old Hill Burying Ground on Aug. 17 as part of his court-ordered community service for a burglary conviction.
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Unbelieveable... absolutely unbelieveable!
Man Accused of Civil War Tomb Desecration
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On a more cheerful note: North Carolina finally got back its original copy of the Bill of Rights, which had been stolen by a looter. The looter was a Union soldier, and the looting occurred during the Late Unpleasantness. Never too late to set things right!
I know that eBay doesn't allow the sale of human remains, except (as I recall) items that have been prepared as medical specimens. Someone I know saw a human skull (incomplete) listed on eBay. It was supposedly of Civil War vintage. He emailed the seller, who claimed the skull fell under the "medical specimen" exception. (Clearly, it didn't.) About the same time, eBay pulled the listing, having been made aware of it by another party. My "friend" (not really) then contacted the seller and bought the skull, which he interred in his family cemetery, with full Confederate honors. He had no idea, of course, whether the deceased was a Confederate soldier, a Union soldier, or none of the above.
I know that eBay doesn't allow the sale of human remains, except (as I recall) items that have been prepared as medical specimens. Someone I know saw a human skull (incomplete) listed on eBay. It was supposedly of Civil War vintage. He emailed the seller, who claimed the skull fell under the "medical specimen" exception. (Clearly, it didn't.) About the same time, eBay pulled the listing, having been made aware of it by another party. My "friend" (not really) then contacted the seller and bought the skull, which he interred in his family cemetery, with full Confederate honors. He had no idea, of course, whether the deceased was a Confederate soldier, a Union soldier, or none of the above.
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