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Man Admits To Stealing From Dead PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007
Prosecutor: Man 'Molested The Bodies Looking For Jewelry'

WATERBURY, Conn. -- A Brooklyn man who broke open caskets to rob the dead of jewelry and gold teeth at a Waterbury cemetery has pleaded guilty to numerous charges. Joseph J. Vecchiarelli, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday to interference with a cemetery or burial ground, possession and sale of narcotics and other charges. State's Attorney John Connelly said Vecchiarelli "molested the bodies looking for jewelry" and threw five bodies, including that of an infant, onto a mausoleum floor.
"He found a ring on one body and took that ring. He pulled bodies apart and looked through the skulls for gold teeth, and he put them in his pocket," the prosecutor said.The cemetery's caretaker alerted Waterbury police in April that three mausoleums had been smashed open.
A ring Vecchiarelli sold to a pawn shop was recovered. Police also recovered two sets of gold dentures from an apartment where Vecchiarelli was staying.
He could face more than 97 years in prison, but prosecutors are recommending a 20-year sentence, suspended after 10 years served and five years' probation.
Vecchiarelli, who is being held on a $635,500 bond, is due to be sentenced Nov. 16.

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