Creepy Stories of Grave Robbing

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From a woman who lived with her dead sister to a man who slept in his wife's grave, eerie tales from the crypt.

Published Jan. 20 2013 4:45AM EST

articles/2013/01/20/creepy-stories-of-grave-robbing/130119-grave-robbers-dickson-clarence-bright_mzqcxc — Ed White/AP

Hours before the late Clarence Bright was to be buried at a Detroit cemetery Monday morning, his body went missing. The next day, police found Street’s son, Vincent Bright, and another man with an empty casket in the back of their van and arrested them.

Caitlin Dickson

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Creepy Stories of Grave Robbing

From a woman who lived with her dead sister to a man who slept in his wife's grave, eerie tales from the crypt.

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Caitlin Dickson