N.h. Woman Gets 1½-3 Years In Prison For Digging Up Dad’s Grave

LANCASTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman who told police she dug up her father’s grave in search of his “real will” but found only vodka and cigarettes has been sentenced to 1½ to three years in prison. Melanie Nash didn’t speak during her sentencing Tuesday. She told police last year she dug up the grave “with respect” and her father “would be OK with it.” The 53-year-old Nash was one of four accused in the plan to open Eddie Nash’s vault in Colebrook, then rifle through his casket last May in a scene a prosecutor compared to an Edgar Allan Poe story.