Crime & Safety
After Pennsylvania Grave Robbery, Loved Ones Worried Final Resting Place Of Family Members Was Disturbed
The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night.
The abandoned, historic Mount Moriah Cemetery in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is the final resting place for thousands. Many have been interred here since the 1800s.
The cemetery has been thrust into the spotlight after a Lancaster County man was accused of harvesting sets of human remains in the middle of the night, hoarding skulls, bones, and corpses, and then offering some of them for sale on his social media accounts.
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Police are confident they've taken inventory of all the disturbed graves, but they've received plenty of calls from people worried that their loved one's final resting place was disturbed.
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