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Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice Jesse Geasey allegedly broke into this Hollenback Cemetery mausoleum in Wilkes-Barre and stole the skull of Louise Dana Kidder, who died in 1926.

Warren Ruda / The Citizens' Voice Jesse Geasey is escorted from his arraignment Thursday in Wilkes-Barre. Authorities say Geasey broke into a mausoleum and stole the skull of a woman who died in 1926.

WILKES-BARRE - After more than a year, city police have solved the mystery of the missing Hollenback Cemetery skull, investigators said Thursday as they charged a Hanover Township man with breaking into a mausoleum last summer and stealing the bones of a woman who died in 1926.

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