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Woman's head stolen from funeral home

Written by DeadGirl
Thursday, 27 April 2006
Family offers $10,000 reward for recovery April 26, 2006 LONGUEUIL, Que. -- A family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a woman's head after it was cut off as the corpse lay in a funeral home. The incident occurred last July when someone made off with Cecile Lemay's head from the funeral parlour in Boucherville, just south of Montreal. Several of Lemay's relatives held a news conference on Tuesday to give details of the gruesome tale. Alain Ouellette, whose 63-year-old mother Ghyslaine is Lemay's sister, said the family can't understand why someone would have committed such a horrible act. "She was such a good person,'' Ouellette said of his aunt. "Everybody loved her. So that's something unimaginable. You cannot think that something like this would happen to a lady like this.'' While the family wants the head returned, Ouellette doesn't want any surprises. "The police told us the head can be kept in the freezer for a lifetime,'' he said. "We don't want the head back for the head. We just want to make sure we won't, especially my mom at her age, find it in front of her door in the morning.'' The family said police asked them last summer not to speak publicly about the incident. Police said they are still investigating but are no further advanced than they were last year. Windows at the funeral home were smashed shortly before the mutilation. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=f3c04ca0-304d-4b67-b092-cdf021ecc7eb&k=86758

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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

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