Child’s Skull Used As Bong

Posted in Crime, Deaths, Odd... by The Gossip Monger on May 11th, 2008.

In a bizarre real-crime story, two teens used a skull as a bong in Humble, Texas:

Police this week learned of the sickening incident while investigating an unrelated credit card theft allegedly pulled off by the three defendants, each of whom was arrested Wednesday and charged with abusing a corpse, a misdemeanor. Kevin Jones (left) and Matthew Gonzalez, both 17, posed for the mug shots you’ll find above. Court records identify the third grave desecrator as Matthew Rule, 16. The May 7 probable cause affidavit, filed in Harris County District Court, does not indicate why the teens dug up the body of Willie Simms, a child who reportedly died in the 1920s.

Here is a transcription of the probable cause document:

PROBABLE CAUSE

YOUR AFFIANT, JIM ADKINS IS A PEACE OFFICER WITH THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. AFFIANT HAS REASON TO BELIEVE AND DOES BELIEVE MATTHEW RULE, MATTHEW GONZALEZ AND KEVIN JONES HEREAFTER REFERRED TO AS DEFENDANTS, WHO COMMITTED THE MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE OF ABUSE OF A CORPSE AT 600 PM 1960 EAST IN HUMBLE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

AFFIANT BASES HIS BELIEF ON THE FOLLOWING:

ON OR ABOUT THE DATE OF MARCH 15, 2008 IN THE INCORPORATED CITY LIMITS OF HUMBLE, HARRIS COUNTY TEXAS, THE LISTED DEFENDANTS DUG UP A GRAVE SITE AND KNOCKED THE HEAD STONE DOWN OF THE DECEASED TO THE GROUND IN AN ATTEMPT TO DECAPATE [sic] A CORPSE. DEFENDANT, WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHORITY, KNOWINGLY DISTURBED A HUMAN CORPSE, NAMELY THE CORPSE OF WILLIE SIMMS.

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