The State : 3 Arrested in Desecration
Redwood City police said they have arrested three of four young men who held a Friday the 13th drinking party in a tomb last November and beheaded two corpses to get their gold teeth. The desecrations occurred at historic Union Cemetery when, according to one of the suspects, four young men decided to have a midnight drinking party at a tomb. Using candles from a previously opened crypt for illumination, they found a nearby family tomb, broke in with a steel fence post and forced open the coffins of four people, removing gold teeth from the skulls after beheading two corpses.
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