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Family Shocked At Mausoleum Theft

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Staten Island--Who would steal from the dead? That's what a Staten Island family is asking after they discovered someone looted irreplaceable items from their daughter's mausoleum. "I never even gave a thought to be honest that anybody would rob from the dead," said Pat Oines. She is devastated that someone had so little respect for the memory of her daughter Jennifer Oines, who was only 25-years-old and a popular music teacher at Sheepshead Bay High School when she was killed in a car crash almost ten years ago. The young woman's students were overwhelmed by her death, but did something very special for her. "They all came to the hospital in busloads they all had their letters six at a time they all came in the room they read to her they prayed over her. There were so many letters, Oines was able to compile a book from them. Oines says she is heartbroken and mystified that book of personal messages was taken. Someone broke the glass of the Jennifer Oine’s Mausoleum's front door in the late night hours of Friday the 13th of April. Also taken were tin urns with the ashes of family pets, a clown doll and stuffed animal. But not taken, a guitar, photographs and a framed degree. Those things were left behind. Police tell Pat the break in appears to be the work of an adult who may have planned it all out. It is possible that someone who became infatuated with the image of the beautiful and young Jennifer, that is one theory police are looking into. "I'm not going to let it rest, somebody has got to know something,” said Oines. “And whatever it takes I hope to get it back." She is pleading with whoever has taken the items to bring them back. “Please bring it back no questions asked. Leave it on the step, leave it in the office on the step, anything." There was no comment from the people in charge at Moravian Cemetery. There are no security cameras, nor is there any security guard working during the overnight hours. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_118202816.html

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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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