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Nearly 200 stolen cemetery vases being returned to rightful graves

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 17 December 2006
Columbia, SC December 15, 2006 Dan Tordjman Hundreds of families have vases back Friday night that were stolen from loved ones' graves. The suspects were busted when they tried selling the stolen vases to the wrong guy. The vases are back at Crescent Hill and Elmwood. Nearly 200 cemetery vessels were recovered after being stolen, ripped off the tops of the graves. "What they thought they'd do is actually take these to recycling places and obtain proceeds for it, obtain monies for it," said Sgt. Florence McCants of the Columbia Police Department. "It's one of those things that goes against the rules of life, you just don't do it," says A-Recyclying Center owner Lee Jarmon. Jarmon has been in the scrap business for nearly 20 years. So when these two men came to him trying to sell vases, Jarmon said no - then he called police. "His instinct told him maybe this was a bad situation, and maybe he needed to contact law enforcement. He did, and his hunch was right and we were looking for these individuals," said McCants. Forty-eight-year-old Lewis Green, Jr. and 21-year-old Alton Hughey are accused of stealing and selling more than 300 vases. In all, dozens of them were found in green's car when he was arrested. "There's a special place in Hell for people who do this kind of thing," says Jarmon. Recovering the vases couldn't have happened at a better time. During the holidays they're filled with flowers, and at $400 per vase, it would've cost about $80,000 to replace them. "The metal market is up more than 6 or 7 years ago to where this has become more and more of an issue," explains Jarmon. Yet the scrap value of the vases - if sold - would've only netted the thieves a couple of hundred dollars. That makes the crime all the more baffling for Jarmon. "My dad passed away six years ago, and I could just think of the anger if someone would've moved his. It just infuriates you," says Jarmon. And it's Jarmon's fury and goodwill that might - at least for now - put a stop to the graveyard thefts. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5821708

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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