Posted on 12/06/2015 5:51:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
HARTFORD, Conn. -- A Connecticut man is accused of storing human remains that were stolen from a cemetery in Worcester.
Police were called to an apartment inside a multi-family home where there was a report human remains being stored.
Police said the homeowner, Amador Medina, admitted to having bodies in the house and invited police inside to show them. Police then found remains of three adults and two children.
Investigators were able to link the remains to five graves that had been robbed at a cemetery in Worcester, Mass. Worcester Police said on Oct. 9, it was discovered a mausoleum at Hope Cemetery was broken into. The mausoleum was secured with two wooden doors and a [wrought] iron gate, along with a heavy gauge chain and lock. Police said the chain had been cut and rust marks on the chain led police to believe the chain the break-in had happened a while back; the exact time is not known.
In the mausoleum, officers saw that several crypts had been forced open and bodies disinterred. There was also damage to the crypt's panels, said police, along with missing skeletal remains.
Investigators attempted to contact family members, but were unsuccessful. It is believed the last time someone was put into the mausoleum was 71 years ago.
On Saturday, after a search of Amador Medina's apartment, detectives from Connecticut contacted Worcester Police and said they had found remains from Hope Cemetery, said police.
Medina is a practicing Santeria priest, a Caribbean religion in which remains are used for medicinal purposes. However, the remains are usually from animals.
Amador Medina, 32, was taken into custody on charges of being a fugitive of justice in Massachusetts. Worcester Police charged Medina with five counts of disinterment of bodies, conspiracy to commit a crime and accessory before the fact.
The original had “rod iron gate”. I like my way better.
Didn't his family come over on the Mayflower?
Surprising....
What the heck is going on in Worcester? They are stealing everything there. Guns, dead bodies, holy smokes things are getting weird up there.
They’re trying to be like the big boys in Bean Town.
Good question. I’ll have to dig that up.
As with most Massachusetts cemeteries, there is a sea of American flags there on July 4th, marking the graves of all the veterans buried. Hope is notable for having many Civil War vets interred there.
You don’t normally read about people with Irish or Italian surnames doing this kind of thing.
Hartford is crazy...thank goodness it is only 23 square miles. If New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport were not in CT, it would be a nice state...
LOL
Take away Brookline, Lawrence, Lowell, Ayer, Fitchburg, half of Cambridge, and parts of Boston, and Massachusetts would be a paradise. Except for the weather, prices, taxes, ...
Beantown is Frisco without the great weather.
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