Silent Theft: Holmes County Grave Robbed Weeks After Burial

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DURANT, Miss.–Someone apparently dug up a grave at a cemetery in Holmes County and stole items off of the buried body, said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March.

A man who was visiting the Second Pilgrim Rest cemetery near Durant found one of the graves disturbed, reported WLBT-TV.

The casket had been busted open. Jewelry was missing from the corpse, which had been buried about a month ago.

March said the family declined a full exhumation because of the stench.

No arrest was announced.