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Teen Who Cut Off Corpse's Head To Make Bong

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Friends Say Buckalew Told Them He Did It Out Of Boredom


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.
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Comments

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    thats pretty fucked
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wow ...not content with getting out of his head ...he wanted to get out of someone elses ...very strange.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yep really fucked up... some stoned heads go dig a tombstone to get a head for a bong to get stoned with...
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    he must have been planning on getting DEAD stoned.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wow ...not content with getting out of his head ...he wanted to get out of someone elses ...very strange.

    :lol:

    I know this isnt a laughing matter, but that was actually quite funny!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :lol:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    he must have been planning on getting DEAD stoned.

    ok... that was just cheesey!:D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    crazy bastard
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Some people are really quite sick arn't they?
  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    OLD NEWS.

    Fucking mad arse idea though. It'd take a hell of alot of work to do.
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