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 to 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 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.
The world gets wierder and wierder every day.
Sad thing is, this doesn't even surprise me. Who the fuck would hit a human body bong?
Oh look, some other idiot does something and suddenly has mental health issues. Surprise surprise, take the blame away from where it really lies, bad education on what is right and what is wrong.
Oh look, some other idiot does something and suddenly has mental health issues. Surprise surprise, take the blame away from where it really lies, bad education on what is right and what is wrong.
No, I'm pretty sure that guy has something wrong with his head. : |
This guy is a necro... pot... necropotaphile. That's what they should call him. Imagine puckering up with a dead man and sucking decayed flesh and smoke into your lungs. MMmmm. Here comes the funny part. When he is stoned, he is going to start laughing about the fact that he just kissed a dead man and got high off it. :lol:
A part of me can't help thinking how funny it would be to cut someone's head off and leave it in the common room at school with Satanic symbols and stuff drawn on the wall in blood. People are so sissy these days that they'd probably all run away screaming.
Sure it's a bit weird but *shrug* It ain't so much that it's a dead human's head as it is his lack of respect for another's tomb.
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