This could be something described as a real-life horror movie.
A man from Pennsylvania is looking at hundreds of counts for possession of over 100 sets of human remains. Some of it were full, and others were partial human remains and skeletons. The DA said it was a “horror movie come to life.”
34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was taken into custody by police. Delaware County DA’s office said that police were investigating numerous mausoleums and graves that were burglarized at Mount Moriah Cemetery.
Fox News Reported:
A Pennsylvania man is facing hundreds of charges after “over 100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains” were allegedly found in his home and a storage unit in a scene a district attorney described as a “horror movie come to life.”
Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, Pa., was arrested this week by police who were investigating a string of burglarized graves and mausoleums at the Mount Moriah Cemetery on the outskirts of Philadelphia, according to the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.
“Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life… This is an unbelievable scene that no one involved, from myself, to the detectives to the medical examiners that are now trying to piece together what they are looking at — quite literally — none of them have ever seen anything like this before,” District Attorney Tanner Rouse said Thursday.
“Detectives have recovered an awful lot of bones at this point, and we are still trying to piece together who they are, where they are from and how many we are looking at, and it’s going to be quite some time before we have a final answer,” Rouse added, noting that some of the remains were months-old infants, while others were hundreds of years old. Fox News Reported.
Delaware County DA’s office said that last Tuesday evening police were involved with surveillance at Mount Moriah Cemetery and were able to see skulls and bones in the back seat of Gerlach’s vehicle.
Gerlach was spotted leaving the cemetery with a burlap bag and a crowbar. He was arrested and admitted to part of the thefts. He claimed he stole about 30 sets of human remains.
Police investigation showed that it was closer to 100 partial or full remains, which were found in a storage unit and the suspect’s home.
Gerlach is facing over 450 counts. 100 of those include abuse of corpses, receiving stolen property, and unlawful taking which brings theft charges.
His arraignment hearing is scheduled for January 20th, and he is being held on $1 million bail.
The investigation is still ongoing.
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