A Nevada man convicted of stealing the remains of two Indian children from a gravesite has been indicted for trying to arrange the deaths of the judge and the investigator who put him behind bars.
Jack Harelson was convicted in 1996 of looting the Elephant Mountain Cave. He took two mummified remains of a young Indian boy and girl to "get the goodies," his ex-wife said at his trial.
Harelson spent only three months in prison but carried a vendetta against the judge and a state investigator who handled the case. He paid a government informant $10,000 in opals to kill the two people, as well as two former business partners.
The remains and artifacts are being held until the end of the case. The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe hopes to repatriate them.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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