Woman digs up father’s grave to find will…ends up disappointed

A woman in New Hampshire in the US has been left disappointed after a plan to dig up her father's grave and retrieve his secret will went awry, and she was left with far less than she expected to find. 

Melanie Nash from Colebrook said she felt she was sold short in the original will that came out after her dad passed away in 2004. In a bid to rectify where she felt she had been wronged, Ms Nash and three others planned to dig up her father and rummage through his coffin to find a different will she believed he had been buried with. 

Ms Nash added that she suspected her sister Susie had hidden the 'real' will in the coffin, and she conspired to dig it up and prove that she was owed money. However, expecting to leave the cemetery with riches, she was left disappointed when she actually ended up leaving in handcuffs, and with little more than the vodka and cigarettes she found in the coffin. 

She was arrested and charged with a number of offences criminal mischief, interference with a cemetery, conspiracy, and abuse of a corpse, which she later pleaded guilty to in a case that was compared to an Edgar Allen Poe story by the prosecution. 

In a statement to police, Ms Nash wrote: "All this was done for the right reasons and I know my father would be OK with it.

"What we all did was to dig up my father’s coffin, Eddie Nash, looking for documents. We did it with respect."

Speaking of the supposed disappearance of another will, Ms Nash's sister Susie said that there had only ever been one drawn up in 1995. Although her father has now been reburied, she said that the effects of the case will no doubt continue to have an impact on her.