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Stolen Skull

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
Tuscon, Arizona Mark Stine KOLD News 13 Reporter "I've been here for over 30 years as an officer here. This is the first time anything like this has occurred that I'm aware of," Benson Police Commander Paul Moncada said. Benson School District Superintendent David Woodall added, "It's very disturbing." Disturbing that someone would break into a crypt in a Benson Mausoleum. "Feel bad for the family of the deceased that something like this would happen," Woodall told KOLD. Last Thursday, the caretaker at Cochise Gardens of Rest stumbled upon the crime. "Discovered some debris that indicated something was a miss or wrong with the crypts," Moncada said. "He was able to discover one of the crypts had been broken into." Breaking into one of these crypts isn't easy. The robbers would have had to remove four screws from around the marble front. Then, remove the heavy marble front. Behind it, three inches of concrete they would have to break through before reaching the corpse. "The skull was removed from the casket," Moncada told us. After being removed from the crypt, at this point no one, except for the robbers, knows exactly what happened to the skull. That is until it turned up at Benson High School. "The skull was located in front of the door of the school resource officer," Woodall said. Woodall doesn't believe this is a school prank. He thinks investigating, by the school resource officer in the community, prompted the thieves to return the skull. "Where someone was attempting to return something stolen from a grave," Woodall said. No matter where the skull ended up, Commander Paul Moncada wants to know who stole it. And he says, in a small community, someone will talk. "It's really had to keep a secret there. Somebody will tell somebody else and that's what we're hoping for." The Benson Police Department has increased patrols at Cochise Gardens of Rest and the other cemeteries in Benson to hopefully prevent another robbery. If you have any information on this case, you are urged to call Benson Police at 520-586-2211 or (crime tip hotline ) 520-586-3011. http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=5947193

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