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Teen Who Cut Off Corpse's Head To Make Bong Sentenced (Dave's not here)
WKMG ^ | 6/29/06 | WKMG Local 6 News

Posted on 06/29/2006 10:22:06 AM PDT by Sax

Friends Say Buckalew Told Them He Did It Out Of Boredom

POSTED: 12:52 pm EDT June 29, 2006

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -- A Vermont teenager has been sentenced to prison for breaking into a tomb and cutting the head off a corpse.

Nickolas Buckalew, 18, of Morrisville, Vt., pleaded guilty two charges.

One was a felony count of intentionally removing or injuring a tombstone. The other was a felony charge of intentionally disinterring and carrying away the remains of a human body.

Buckalew was sentenced to between one and seven years in prison and was given credit for serving 14 months while awaiting trial.

On April 8, 2005, Buckalew went broke into a tomb, opened the lid of a casket and cut off the head of a corpse. He stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the dead man. He then wrapped the head in plastic bags and took it home, The Caledonian-Record reported.

The teen reportedly told friends that he planned to leave the head outside to dry and would then bleach it, a police affidavit said. The witnesses said his plan was to turn the skull into a bong -- a pipe generally used to smoke marijuana. Buckalew went to an apartment where some of his friends were and told them that he had chopped off the head because he was bored, according to The Caledonian-Record.

The witnesses said they then went to the tomb to see the casket and saw that the lid was removed and the body in the casket was headless.

Morristown said that while executing a search warrant at Buckalew’s home, they found a human head wrapped in bags, a necktie, a hacksaw, crowbar, garden trowel and two small parts of the damaged casket, according to the newspaper.

A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

Dr. Philip Kinsler, a clinical psychologist and adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H., testified that Buckalew “has always felt extraordinarily out of place" and that Buckalew said he tried to hang himself when he was a child.

After the incident, the victim's widow, the only family member in the area, was told of the vandalism.

"The widow was in shock," the chief of police said said. "She did not want any information. She did not want to know any details."

Buckalew addressed the court after his sentencing, saying, "It was a horrendous thing that I did -- what I did was appalling. I didn't think of the victim."

He went on to say he wants to get help for his mental problems.

He's been sent to a residential treatment program for juveniles.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: corpse; dopersrights; drugs; drugwar; ghoul; graverobber; pot; pothead; skull; smokeumifyougottum; stupidpotheads; warondrugs
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What a toolbox.
1 posted on 06/29/2006 10:22:10 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Sax

If he wanted a bong he should have gone to a head shop.


2 posted on 06/29/2006 10:24:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: cripplecreek

Nice!


3 posted on 06/29/2006 10:25:15 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: cripplecreek

Rimshot!


4 posted on 06/29/2006 10:25:24 AM PDT by Sax
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To: cripplecreek
The kid is definitely a head case.....
5 posted on 06/29/2006 10:28:57 AM PDT by b4its2late (John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!)
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To: Sax

Seven years for desecrating a body?? People get less than that for murder at times.


6 posted on 06/29/2006 10:32:14 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Sax

He certainly wasn't using his head.


7 posted on 06/29/2006 10:33:11 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: Sax

The stupid things guys will do to get head...


8 posted on 06/29/2006 10:35:15 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Sax

Sounds like an excitable boy they all said.


9 posted on 06/29/2006 10:37:23 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Sax


There are easier ways...
10 posted on 06/29/2006 10:43:16 AM PDT by sully777 (wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
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To: Sax; Tijeras_Slim
He stole eyeglasses and a bow tie from the dead man.

Did he break into the tomb of Paul Simon?

This Paul Simon by the way.

11 posted on 06/29/2006 10:45:13 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: Sax

Stupid Pot head!


12 posted on 06/29/2006 10:45:15 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: CougarGA7

Looks more like the wax museum rendition of Paul Simon.


13 posted on 06/29/2006 10:47:07 AM PDT by Sax
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To: Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Allegra; Flyer

That's just nasty.


14 posted on 06/29/2006 10:48:08 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
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To: Sax

It does doesn't it. Scary thing is that it isn't.


15 posted on 06/29/2006 10:48:23 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: Sax
Everybody needs a goal in life.


16 posted on 06/29/2006 10:48:54 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: cripplecreek

That was a good one!


17 posted on 06/29/2006 11:03:59 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.)
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To: Sax
A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.

D'OH!

18 posted on 06/29/2006 11:07:30 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: cripplecreek

You are a Ruler!!


19 posted on 06/29/2006 11:32:01 AM PDT by TheKidster
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To: dead

Now this is messed up.


20 posted on 06/29/2006 12:15:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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