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Tot uncovers human skull in cemetery

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 13 July 2006
Five-year-old Mary Knight was playing in a sand pile in DeMotte Cemetery down the road from her grandparents’ home Thursday morning when she picked up something she didn’t recognize. What Mary found, her great aunt, Peggy Cauley, is certain, was a human skull. Cauley called 911 to notify police who in turn notified the Jasper County Coroner’s Office. Chief Deputy Coroner Andrew Boersma, Deputy Coroner Elaine Hruz and a small group of township and county workers spent most of Thursday sifting through sand at the site, collecting fragments that will be sent to forensic anthropologist Dr. Stephen Nawrocki at the University of Indianapolis for dating and identification purposes. Boersma would not say whether the bones were human, or even what other fragments were found. “It’s not a complete skull,” Boersma said. But there is no doubt in Cauley’s mind. “It was human and it was intact, except for the mandible, the lower jaw, which was missing,” said Cauley, who added the skull appeared to be that of an adult. Cauley said Mary came across the skull when she and her twin brother, John, accompanied Cauley on a walk through the old country cemetery on 8th Street and came across the pile of sand at the rear of the cemetery. “ 'This doesn’t feel like sand,’ she said to me,” Cauley said from the family home on 8th Street on Thursday afternoon. “No, it isn’t,” Cauley said she told told her great niece. They put it and other fragments back on the pile and Cauley called police. Cauley’s niece, Stacey Knight, who went back to the site with Cauley, said she found a partial denture plate near where the skull was located. “You could definitely tell,” Knight said. Boersma said if the bones are human, they were likely unearthed when a grave was dug recently. “There’s always sand left when they bury somebody so they pile it back here,” Boersma said. Neither Boersma, nor Keener Township Trustee Diana Haberlin said they knew the age of the cemetery. Haberlin said she believed it dated at least into the 1800s. Haberlin said she had no information on when the last grave was dug at the cemetery. The township maintains the cemetery and sells lots in it, Haberlin said. About 4 p.m., after workers finished sifting and tossing fragments into a bag, a loader was brought in to put the sand onto a truck and taken to town property for possible further investigation and to keep the curious from digging through the sand. Boersma, a lifetime resident of DeMotte, said the last time he remembers anything similar to Thursday’s incident was when his great-grandfather’s grave was being dug in the same cemetery. “There was already somebody there so they had to move him,” Boersma said. Source: http://www.post-trib.com/cgi-bin/pto-story/news/z1/07-07-06_z1_news_03.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries