A New Hampshire woman claims her sister hid their father's "real will" in his burial casket 10 years ago. She dug it up to find out for sure.
Melanie Nash allegedly conspired with others to remove her father's remains from his grave at Colebrook Village Cemetery in May, according to The Caledonian-Record (via the New York Daily News). The casket of businessman Eddie Nash, who died in 2004, was found opened and searched through.
Melanie wrote in a police statement that she met up with four others at the cemetery. The planned to dig up the grave, but only found a pack of cigarettes in the father's hands, according to the police affidavit.
"All this was done for the right reasons and I know my father would be OK with it," she wrote in her statement. Melanie added at the end of her statement, "What we all did was to dig up my father's coffin, Eddie Nash, looking for documents. We did it with respect."
Her attorney William Albrecht wants a judge to suppress the statement she made after her arrest, but before she was advised of her Miranda rights. He filed a motion last month to exclude the statement because the police violated Melanie's right against self-incrimination.
The Coos County Attorney John McCormick claims the 52-year-old woman came to police under her own "free will" and waved her Miranda rights.
Melanie received nothing from her father's estate that he built from an equipment business he started in 1979 and the family still runs. She wanted to prove her sister Susie Nash hid the will in the grave, but Susie said her father planned only one will in 1995 that everyone knew about.
