TORONTO (Reuters) - A distraught Canadian family is offering a reward for the return of their mother's head, hacked from her body in a funeral home a year ago by thieves who left cash, and her earrings behind.



Canadian newspapers reported Thursday someone broke into a funeral parlor in Longueuil, Quebec in July last year, where the body of Cecile Lemay was awaiting burial.

The thief or thieves made off with the 68-year-old's head, but left her earrings and a cash charity donation behind.

"Each morning, when we get up, we ask ourselves: 'Where is the head? Will it show up on our lawn one morning?'," the Globe and Mail newspaper quoted Lemay's sister Carmelle as saying.

The family is offering a reward of C$10,000 ($8,900) for information leading to the return of the stolen head or to the arrest of those responsible.

"We think about it each day. We can't find closure and we want to know who did it and why," another of Lemay's sisters, Ghyslaine, said.



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Obviously not your average garden variety thieves......

Haha. Good laugh.

Hey! At least they left some money.

Its not funny, you know..

Likely it is already reduced to a skull by now and being used in some bizarre fashion.

Thats what I'm assuming too. For the thieves to leave money and jewelry behind and only take the head, they must have wanted the head for some ritual.

Could have been a cruel dare or morbid scavenger hunt. The theives have no idea what turmoil they'd be putting the family through, or they just didn't care.

Well two heads are better then one....

So three must make you pretty damn good..!

Yeah, this is strange. I read about it here in Toronto.

How awful. At least, though, they only took a head from a corpse. Not one from a living person!!! Still, not something I would want to happen to any of my loved ones.

Good point. And I would want to massacre them if they took one of my loved one's head.

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