RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) – A statue weighing about 400 pounds has been stolen from a cemetery in Rutland, Vermont.

Police are investigating the disappearance of the 5-foot-tall piece of marble from Evergreen Cemetery on Nov. 9. The Rutland Herald says it’s sculpted in the shape of a somber-faced girl holding her head up with one hand while clutching a wreath in the other.

Cemetery groundskeeper Mike Cavacas says he believes the theft happened during the day.

The statue stood outside the crypt of Hugo Melen, a Rutland businessman who Cavacas said was once the cemetery’s commissioner, and his wife Marie Melen. Police say it took the effort of at least two men and a truck to haul the sculpture away.

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Information from: Rutland Herald, http://www.rutlandherald.com/

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