A man posted a video on social media showing whoever was responsible for desecrating his mother’s tombstone.
padlock find urine and excrement on the grave of his mothera man decided install a hidden camera to discover the person responsible and to catch him got a surprise. It was when he published the social media video and made a decision.
Linda Louise Torello He died of cancer aged 66 in 2017 and has since been buried in a cemetery in the Tappan Reformed Church in Orangetown, New York, USA.
Urine and feces on the grave
According to the Torello family, they had found feces and urine on the woman’s tombstone. “almost every morning”.
For this reason and furious with the situationthey decided to use the hidden filming device to find the person responsible for the reprehensible actions.
Linda’s son Michael Murphy, 43posted incriminating video of the man getting out of his car, walking over to the headstone and urinating on it in what was described as a “normal routine action”.
Michael wrote on Facebook with the attached video: “THIS IS HEARTBREAKING”.
“A man from Bergen County, New Jersey has been leaving bags of poop and urine on my mom’s headstone almost every morning. assisted by his wife too,” revealed the visibly dismayed son.
And he argued: “We have weeks and months of evidence. The police and the media were informed. No one in my family had contact with him since 1976 or so.”
who was responsible
The family managed to identify the man as Linda’s ex-husbandto whom she was briefly married but divorced in 1974.
However, the subject still seems hold a grudge nearly 48 years after their split legal and five years after her death.
It is believed that the breakdown of Linda’s first marriage was due to the fallout when she got pregnant and the man did not want to take care of the child, they entrusted their children to the Daily Voice.
“We’re not sure how you found my mother’s grave. But this goes back to a problem almost 50 years ago. Pray for us, thank you and please share this!!!” Michael added.
cemetery permit
Michael and his sister Renee Eichler Barragan They obtained permission from the Tappan Reformed Church to use the hidden cameras to catch the criminal.
In addition, the family also discovered that the current desecrator wife usually accompanied him on their morning trips to the cemetery.
the video was recorded on Sunday September 18 on Michael’s phone and claimed he had evidence the man had been there for at least four days straight.
Now they are waiting to bring the complaint before a judge, since the law of the state of New York establishes that the desecration of cemeteries is a crime only if damages exceed $250.
From his speculations, he believes he passed that threshold after “paying a ‘hazardous materials’ company to remove all of his urine-soaked decorations and properly clean the headstone.”
In addition, another amount of money to replace the uprooted grass, added to the permits for these companies to enter the cemetery, he added.