100 skulls, mummified body parts found in a Pennsylvania grave robbery case: Police
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Key Points:
- Police discovered over 100 human skulls, bones, and decomposing body parts in the basement of Jonathan Christ Gerlach's home after finding bones visible in his car near an abandoned cemetery in Philadelphia.
- Gerlach, 34, is accused of stealing about 100 sets of human remains from at least 26 mausoleums and vaults at Mount Moriah Cemetery, the country’s largest abandoned burial ground.
- The break-ins involved smashing open sealed vaults and mausoleums containing older burials at the 160-acre cemetery, which has around 150,000 grave sites.
- Gerlach was arrested carrying a crowbar and a burlap bag containing mummified remains of two children, three skulls,
