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Family offers $30G reward in return of woman's body

Quick ReadThe body of Mattia Filippazzo was discovered missing after a cemetery caretaker found three mausoleums broken into Tuesday morning.

(left) Family photo of Mattia Filipazzo, who died

Photo credit: WCBS-TV and James Carbone | (left) Family photo of Mattia Filipazzo, who died in 1998. (right) Police investigate after her remains were discovered stolen from a mausoleum in St. Charles Cemetery on August 24, 2010, according to Suffolk police and Filipazzo's family.

The family of a Valley Stream woman whose coffin was pulled from her cemetery mausoleum this week is offering a $30,000 reward for the return of her remains.

The body of Mattia Filippazzo, who died in 1998 at the age of 87, was discovered missing after a caretaker at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale found three mausoleums broken into on Tuesday morning. Filippazzo's coffin was found on...

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