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300 bronze vases stolen from cemetery recovered

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 13 September 2006
September 13, 2006 CAROL ROBINSON News staff writer A man was arrested after he tried to sell 300 bronze cemetery vases at a scrap metal business. Investigators arrested 50-year-old Eddie Davis and recovered 300 vases from a crawlspace at his home. They believe the vases were stolen from Sunrise Cemetery sometime between Aug. 30 and Sept. 4. Davis, an employee at another cemetery, was arrested Friday and is being held in the county jail. "When you think about it, that's 300 graves so that's 300 families affected," Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Randy Christian said Tuesday. "That's a place really where people go to talk to loved ones, pray, dress up their graves or just talk to them. "I don't know if he understood the amount of people he hurt, but I hope the judge will consider that when it comes to sentencing." Officials launched their investigation after a 79-year-old woman went to visit her husband's grave and discovered the missing vase which screws into the concrete. She noticed others were missing too, and knew they had been stolen. The woman called Sheriff Mike Hale to ask for help. Detectives canvassed Birmingham area scrap metal companies. A woman selling aluminum cans at one of the businesses asked deputies if they were there about the stolen vases she had heard about in news reports. She said she saw a man with a wheelbarrow full of them the previous day at a different business. Deputies talked to that business owner who said he, too, knew they were stolen and refused to buy them. The business owner had a surveillance videotape which showed the man's license plate. The truck was registered to Forest Hills Cemetery. Workers there called in the employee who used that vehicle. "As soon as he saw our detectives, he just hung his head and said, `I know why you're here,"` Christian said. Davis led authorities to the stash of stolen vases in the crawl space under his house. They were returned to Sunrise Cemetery. Davis is charged with first-degree receiving stolen property. Christian said he has a history of burglary and theft charges dating back to 1977. http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1158139750164270.xml&coll=2

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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