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Tomb raider guilty in new antiquities scheme

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 15 October 2006
Native artifacts - A Grants Pass man could get more prison time for dealing in looted goods; Harelson Feds fined him $2.5 million Friday, October 13, 2006 By Bryan Denson OREGON--A federal judge in Eugene has found a notorious antiquities thief from Grants Pass guilty of attempting to sell Native American artifacts stolen from public lands. Jack Lee Harelson acknowledged before Judge Ann L. Aiken on Tuesday that the government would be able to prove that he hired another man -- who turned out to be a government informant -- to assist him in offering to sell archeological resources dug up illegally on federal lands in Oregon and Nevada between 2002 and 2003, according to court records. Harelson, serving a 10-year prison sentence on a failed murder-for-hire scheme, had gone so far as to set up an Internet site called Jack's Outback. "He faces up to two years in prison for the most recent archeological conviction," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Cardani in Eugene. "He will be sentenced on Dec. 19." A longtime amateur archeologist, Harelson had been found guilty in 1996 of looting Elephant Mountain Cave in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and carrying away the remains of two ancient children he found in a pair of baskets. The federal government later fined Harelson $2.5 million in the cave desecration, which government experts said had destroyed its archeological significance. Harelson was tried twice in Oregon on charges that he had paid an intermediary to arrange the murders of some of his enemies. He was acquitted in late 2004 on two such charges. But a Jackson County Circuit Court jury deliberated for less than an hour last year before finding him guilty of trying to hire a hit man to kill a former business partner in an opal-mining venture. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1160702717141930.xml&coll=7

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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