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https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-years-cemetery-shutdown-families-042222596.html?nhp=12 years after cemetery shutdown, families still seek answers
Adrian Sainz, Associated Press
April 11, 2016
BARTLETT, Tenn. (AP) -- Jackie Hughes longs to grieve over her sister's death in simple ways: visit her grave, lay out flowers, and pour a can of Bud Light her sister's favorite on the spot. But three years after Tawana Hillard's death, Hughes hasn't been able to spill a drop.
Hillard is missing. Since her graveside service at Galilee Memorial Gardens near Memphis in 2012, her body has been lost, along with hundreds of others whose remains were entrusted to the cemetery.
"I want to be able to walk in, to put flowers down, to just kneel and talk with her, whatever," Hughes says. Instead she leafs through photo albums at home, smiling as she remembers Saturday mornings spent talking with her sister about their love of blues music.
Two years ago, state officials closed Galilee. Owner Jemar Lambert was accused of misplacing hundreds of bodies, burying multiple cadavers in the same grave, and crushing caskets to fit them into single plots. Lambert received 10 years' probation in a plea deal. He left behind disorganized records, an investigation that continues today, and families who don't know where their loved ones are buried.
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2 years after cemetery shutdown, families still seek answers (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Apr 2016
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Initech
(100,081 posts)1. Holy shit!
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)2. Really horrible, isn't it?
Initech
(100,081 posts)3. The scary thing is I bet this isn't the only cemetary this happens at.
hardluck
(639 posts)4. Terrible thing
A friend of the family had the cremated remains of their daughter go missing in Los Angeles. They were found on the side of the freeway. It was devastating for the family.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)6. How did they know they were her remains?
hardluck
(639 posts)7. Labeled in a box on the side of the 101
Wish i could find the LA Times article on it. Resulted in some lawsuits many years ago.
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)9. OMG! That is horrifying!
To find one's labeled remains on the side of the road is the worst.
hardluck
(639 posts)8. Here is the article
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)5. He got away with a slap on the wrist.
What a scumbag. Justice was not served here at all.