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	Tejas > Caddo Fundamentals > Graves of Caddo Ancestors
		Ordinary Caddos had less elaborate graves and were often buried in family cemeteries and sometimes (especially children) buried beneath the floors of their houses.
		Grave robbers often tresspass on private, state, or federal lands and dig up graves surreptitiously and illegally.
		It also says that Native American descendants should decide the fate of the skeletal remains, grave offerings, and sacred objects of their ancestors that are encountered by the federal government and held by any institution, such as a museum, that receives federal funding.
	www.texasbeyondhistory.net /tejas/fundamentals/graves.html (2616 words)

	About Facts Net
		All this grave robbing led him to want real women to dissect He was indeed a human monster.
		There were three grave robbers and the story goes on that when they got the casket open there was a carved wooden sign of the chest of the skeleton with the inscription May 1791.
		Grave Robbing is looked upon as a capitol crime in many countries; In China, an official in Chengde City, Hebei Province, was sentenced to death for his part in helping to move relics stolen from Chinese graves.
	aboutfacts.net /Strange17.htm (800 words)

	Grave robbing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grave robbing is the bane of art historians and archaeologists; countless precious grave sites and tombs have been robbed before scholars were able to examine them.
		The Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun is famous because he is the only pharaoh whose tomb was discovered intact, grave robbers having already pillaged the tombs of other pharoahs.
		Michelangelo, the Renaissance painter and sculptor, was known for stealing bodies from morgues in order to study human anatomy to perfect his artwork; however, this would more likely be considered a case of body snatching than grave robbery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grave_robbing (226 words)

	Stepney Funerals:Grave Robbing
		Burials in crypts began to protect the coffins against the theft of the occupants and the crypts at Christchurch, Spitalfields were built to ensure the safety of the corpse from grave robbers.
		Searching for the grave of an ancestor who died in a workhouse at that time, could therefore, be a fruitless task for today's family historian.
		St Paul's, Shadwell, in 1838 was charging an additional fee of £6 for iron and lead coffins, which took longer to disintegrate, which were to be deposited within a bricklined grave in the churchyard.
	website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/grave.htm (367 words)

	Grave-robbing?
		The grave was adorned by matchbox cars, a purple stuffed animal, and a toy pistol until last week, when they disappeared.
		Clayton stated that keeping the cemetery clean is an "ongoing process." He admitted that items such as recently placed flowers were probably mistakenly picked up last week and that while his preference would be for plot owners to manage their own areas, at times he must step in.
		Cook says her family purchased two Weed-eaters to help maintain their grave area and at times they have even helped maintain other graves that are not normally attended to.
	www.cortezjournal.com /archives/1news1348.htm (1013 words)

	Times Argus: Vermont News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The law, which banned grave robbing within the state's borders, may have had the effect of persuading Dartmouth students to look across the river to Vermont when they needed a cadaver to study.
		Working by the dim light of a shrouded lantern, they would study the surface of the freshly dug grave for any pattern of sticks or leaves that might have been left there by a friend of the deceased to detect grave robbing.
		In 1834, the pair were arrested in Burlington on the suspicion of grave robbing after two graves were found empty.
	www.timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/NEWS/506260318/1013 (1648 words)

	Past Programs: Grave Robbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Surprisingly, most grave robbers were medical students putting themselves through medical school, but there were also professional grave robbers.
		While there have been a number of instances of grave robbing in the country, this is the only one Klein is aware of that has occurred in DeKalb County.
		Likely many grave robberies have gone undetected, and there are probably a number of empty caskets buried in cemeteries throughout the country.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /friends/graverobbing.htm (562 words)

	Rusty grave robbing shovel - TheKolWiki
		This is a shovel used for robbing graves.
		On July 11, 2006, this item was renamed from "grave robbing shovel" to "rusty grave robbing shovel" and had its description changed slightly.
		Confusingly, a new grave robbing shovel (item #1673) was added at the same time.
	kol.coldfront.net /thekolwiki/index.php/Rusty_grave_robbing_shovel (115 words)

	wfrv.com - Stronger Law Sought After Grave Robbing Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dustin Blake Radke is accused of a bizarre grave robbing attempt in Cassville.
		Nicholas Owen Grunke is accused of a bizarre grave robbing attempt in Cassville.
		Alexander Caleb Grunke is accused of a bizarre grave robbing attempt in Cassville.
	wfrv.com /topstories/local_story_250115417.html (301 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Staffordshire \| Church plea over woman's remains
		Her remains were taken from a grave in nearby Yoxall, Staffs, in October.
		Mrs Hammond's body was taken from her grave in St Peter's churchyard in Yoxall on 6 or 7 October 2004, seven years after she was buried there.
		The 42-year-old described the grave robbers as "despicable" and called for Mrs Hammond's remains to be returned.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/staffordshire/4210064.stm (607 words)

	Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Message Boards: Grave robbing?
		I don't know if there is any info out there for grave robbing incidents just before the murders.Although, some people on this board do seem to turn up wondrous results.
		"Grave robbing", is considered to be more of a "petty" crime, when compared to the more felonious acts of stalking and rape.
		Grave robbing isn't what I think about when I think of Jacks possible early crimes.
	www.casebook.org /forum/messages/4920/10687.html (2172 words)

	Funeralgate - GW Halted Investigation into Corpse Abuse
		The attorneys represent 10 families who say their loved ones were dug up and dumped in the woods, buried in the wrong graves or buried in vaults on top of each other instead of side by side as the families had paid
		The pages show "there are several hundred people who have purchased graves, premium contracts purchased years ago, that do not have a place to be laid to rest," said co-counsel Neal Hirschfeld.
		Her father died in 1994, but another man allegedly was buried next to him in her mother's grave.
	www.hereinreality.com /funeralgate.htm (667 words)

	Occult Crime: A Law Enforcement Primer
		Mayombe rituals require the use of human bones, grave robbing in Miami, New York and Florida are often assumed to have Palo linkages.
		In the second case, the perpetrator stole a skull and, during the trial, indicated the skull was taken and used as part of a Satanic ritual.
		He was subsequently convicted of grave robbing in a court trial.
	www.holysmoke.org /report/28.htm (797 words)

	Grave Robbing and Archeology
		Kennewick was substantially different from this, in the Kennewick example, he might have died alone, was buried by circumstance, and noone knew were he was buried or could, to date speculate on burial grounds were he was buried.
		There is no pretense or beleif that his discovery was the violation of an actual grave, nor a convincing argument that the peoples of the area have some outstanding genetic link to him.
		Some grave plot are owned outright (or leased in perpetuity) but even then if no decendant visits the grave for 20 years, it is likely to be taken over by adverse posession unless the operator of the cemetary or the local government is particularly conscientous.
	www.science-one.com /new-5622013-4250.html (2844 words)

	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> RE: ALF spokesman targets children and defends grave robbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The only possible reasons for the Halls grave descration to be wrong is either that the suffering it caused living relatives is too high a price to pay or that you don't agree with the struggle the activists are waging.
		There probably little point in trying to argue one might have been at least partially beneficial for people as opposed to one which was definately not (nor was it particularly beneficial for animals for that matter).
		You're right the ones who do it in public, harass people no matter how peripheral their involvement with animal use, burn buildings, and dig up graves are a much better representation.
	www.animalrights.net /78099 (505 words)

	Federal Baseball :: A Washington Nationals Blog
		Wish we could say we never, ever saw this one coming: according to the Post, the Nats are "[k]eeping an eye" on reliever Danny Graves, who was designated for assignment by the Indians, was long-ago a Jim Bowden acquisition, and was desired by Bowden after a release by the Reds last season:
		Graves could become particularly enticing -- despite his 5.79 ERA in 13 appearances for the Indians -- if lefty Joey Eischen continues to struggle.
		Graves hasn't done much the last couple of years.
	www.federalbaseball.com /story/2006/5/16/72944/0190 (573 words)

	portland imc - 2003.09.25 - Bush Family History - Grave Robbing SOB's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The grave robbing was exposed when Apache leaders received a photo and information in the 1980s.
		He claimed the log book describing the grave robbing was a hoax.
		Based on her research, Robbins believes the grave robbing incident took place, the log entry is authentic and the skull belongs to Geronimo.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/09/272420.shtml (1332 words)

	Ernst Oppert's Kingdom of Corea: Grave-Robbing in the Name of God
		In June 1867, Earnest Oppert (a German), Feron (a French Catholic priest) and Jenkins (an American) mounted an expedition to rob the grave of a Korean king.
		The French priest Feron was informed of the "rich" royal grave by his Korean converts and in fact, the Korean traitors willingly led the China crew to the grave site.
		Jenkins went in the expedition only as a passenger, and never landed in Corca; nor did he know anything of the arrangements as to how the treaty was to be made before leaving; nor even what was done in Corca until the China was on her way back.
	www.kimsoft.com /2000/oppert.htm (4637 words)

	Grave-robbing
		They did it in order to terrorize a family and force their beliefs on them.
		This is a sick perverted example of activism gone too far.
		Holding parts of this ladies body for ransom proves only that the grave robbers are evil...pure and simple.
	www.animalliberationfront.com /ALFront/FAQs/Graverobbing.htm (272 words)

	South-Western EconNews: Grave Robbing Dead Easy
		In Peru, pre-Columbian burial grounds are being pillaged by grave robbers in search of artifacts.
		Buying and selling artifacts is illegal, but the penal code refers only to grave robbers.
		Consider the news story and refer to the positions of the two curves in your diagram.
	www.swlearning.com /economics/econ_news/grave_robbing.html (282 words)

	Grave robbing trial begins in Newark : Religion News Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Authorities say Oscar Cruz hired someone to steal remains from three graves at Mount Pleasant and Holy Secular cemeteries.
		Prosecutors say Cruz is the high priest of a religious cult called Palo Mayombe.
		One man connected to the case has already pleaded guilty to grave robbing.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /5577/grave-robbing-trial-begins-in-newark (428 words)

	FOXNews.com - Grave-Robbing British Animal Rights Activists Jailed for 12 Years - International News \| News of the ...
		John Ablewhite, of Manchester, northwest England, and Kerry Whitburn and John Smith, both of central England, were each handed 12-year prison terms at Nottingham Crown Court after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiring to flmail the owners of a guinea pig breeding farm in Staffordshire, 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of London.
		A fourth defendant, Josephine Mayo, also from central England, was jailed for four years after admitting a lesser part in the six-year campaign against the Hall family, which bred the small animals for medical research purposes.
		As part of the campaign, the body of Gladys Hammond, 82, the mother-in-law of one of the Hall brothers, was stolen from her grave in a churchyard.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,195158,00.html (597 words)

	AR.net >> Discussion Forum >> RE: ALF spokesman targets children and defends grave robbing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		RE: ALF spokesman targets children and defends grave robbing
		Since when is defending arson, grave robbing and other forms of systematic urban terrorism against a democratic society (Britain today is arguably the truest democracy ever) the mark of an intelligent, rational, witty person?
		When the pro-life protesters firebomb an abortion clinic and wage a smear campaign against doctors...
	www.animalrights.net /77513 (102 words)

	SKULL and BONES
		We quickly closed the grave, shut the door and sped home to Pat[riarch] Mallon's room, where we cleaned the Bones.
		They took turns watching while they robbed the grave, taking items including a skull, some other bones, a horse bit and straps.
		The other grave robber whose name is given, Ellery James, we encountered in Chapter 1--he was to be an usher at Prescott's wedding three years later.
	www.pa56.org /skullandbones.htm (1545 words)

	William Burke & William Hare
		The number of executions was, as William Roughead wrote, "...wholly inadequate to meet the growing needs...and the surgeons' and barbers' apprentices had been in use diligently to till the soil and reap the harvest of what has been finely called 'Death's mailing.'"
		This practice soon became the regular occupation of some underworld characters, and author Hugh Douglas wrote of the proficiency of these workers: “(Grave robbers) could open a grave, remove a body and restore the soil between patrols of the night watch....
		Upon receiving a delivery of a cadaver from someone other than those authorized to transport criminals’ corpses, doctors and their assistants most likely suspected that the bodies were from graves, but generally said nothing in order to keep the anatomy classes full of interested (and paying) students.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/weird/burke/index_1.html (766 words)

	Museum piece or Grave Robbing? - HawaiiThreads.com
		I would like that a damn sight better than 200 years from now a grave robber digs up my grave and puts my wedding ring through the fl market sales routes.
		In fact I would be proud to have an artifact of mine in a museum two centuries hence.
		This opens up too many opportunities for grave robbers to snatch the pieces and then, NO one sees then again.
	www.hawaiithreads.com /showthread.php?t=4915 (793 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Staffordshire \| Protest 'link' to desecrated grave
		The grave of an 82-year-old woman whose family has been the target of animal rights protesters has been desecrated.
		The damage to Gladys Hammond's burial plot was discovered on Thursday at St Peter's Church, Yoxall, Staffordshire.
		The officer refused to elaborate on the extent of the damage to the grave but described it as a "very sensitive issue" which had distressed Mrs Hammond's family.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/staffordshire/3725702.stm (491 words)

	theRatandMouse - "Grave robbing ghouls" continued - the Government responds to the Rat and Mouse
		theRatandMouse - "Grave robbing ghouls" continued - the Government responds to the Rat and Mouse
		"Grave robbing ghouls" continued - the Government responds to the Rat and Mouse
		So unable to quite believe the Daily Mail were giving the story straight, I emailed the DCLG for comment about the whole Empty Dwelling Management Orders hoo-hah.
	www.theratandmouse.co.uk /weblog/archives/2006/06/grave_robbing_g_1.html (509 words)

	Three teens charged with grave robbing
		Three New Iberia teen-agers were arrested for grave robbing after a headstone and human remains were discovered at one of their homes.
		He said it appeared only one grave was violated.
		They have to know that their mom or dad or brother or sister is part of a grave robbing for some ancient cultural satisfaction."
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-chat/1325401/posts (790 words)

	Targeted guinea pig farm closes [Grave-robbing terrorists prevail]
		The family said they hoped the decision would prompt the return of the body of their relative Gladys Hammond, whose remains were stolen from a churchyard.
		The remains were taken from her grave in nearby Yoxall in October.
		Mrs Hammond, who was buried in St Peter's churchyard seven years ago, was the mother-in-law of Christopher Hall, part-owner of the farm.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1468826/posts (928 words)

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