Tales from the Crypt Robber

Some people are goth, and then there are the hard-core, dog killin’, grave diggin’, make-a-marijuana-bong-out-of-a-femur-bone-and-use-a-skull-for-an-ashtray goth.

From the AP here:

Police say a gravedigger stole body parts — including a skull and a thigh bone — from a broken casket at a church cemetery and took them home to make an ashtray.
  
“While he was digging a grave, a casket was broken open, so (investigators) believe he took the body parts to make an ashtray and a pipe,” said Police Lt. Kevin O’Brien.

Police discovered the theft when they went to his apartment Wednesday after his wife complained that her husband, Keith Chartrand, killed her dog. She said she found the body parts among his belongings.

Police charged Chartrand, 30, with removing a body from a grave and cruelty to animals.

Fitchburg District Court Judge Arthur Haley III ordered Chartrand held on $50,000 bail at a court hearing on Wednesday where Chartrand told the judge the charges against him was “bogus.”

Bogus charges for such a gnarly crime, dude.  But I hear the dog was a bad dog, so he had it comin’.