Gravedigger arrested for bringing his work home

GraveA ghoulish gravedigger has been arrested in Fitchburg for allegedly stealing bones from a cemetery in a bizarre attempt to use the body parts as household ornaments.

Kenneth Chartland, 30, a gravedigger for St. Bernard Cemetery in Fitchburg, allegedly stole a skull and several body parts from a decomposing corpse and planned to use them around the house, according to WHDH’s Channel 7 News.

WHDH reported that Chartland used the skull as an ashtray and fashioned a pipe out of the other body parts he stole.

Chartland was arrested after allegedly calling his wife and telling her that he killed her dog with a rock. When Fitchburg police investigated the incident, the skull and several other body parts were discovered.

Link: Boston Herald
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