Pennsylvania Ghoul
Stole Over 100 Corpses, Abused Them …
However Not Sexually, DA Says
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A Pennsylvania man took his ghoulish actions to the acute, stealing greater than 100 skeletal stays from gravesites and squirreling away most of them inside his dwelling, in response to prosecutors.
Jonathan Gerlach was arrested Tuesday after cops say they executed a search warrant at his dwelling in Ephrata, PA, and found 100 units of full or partial human stays in his basement.
Delaware County District Legal professional Tanner Rouse slapped Gerlach with a slew of costs, together with prison mischief, prison trespass, intentional desecration of public monument and abuse of corpse.
TMZ.com
Rouse instructed TMZ … the abuse of corpse cost doesn’t check with necrophilia (intercourse with a useless physique). As a substitute, Rouse mentioned, the skeletal stays had been thought-about abused as a result of they had been in tatters together with greater than 100 skulls discovered inside Gerlach’s home and a separate storage facility.
The DA mentioned these skulls and different stays weren’t in such unhealthy situation when Gerlach first dug them up at varied cemeteries. Rouse additionally believes Gerlach didn’t kill any of the individuals whose skeletons had been discovered.
Police say they linked the dots after Mount Moriah Cemetery reported a number of burglaries that started in November 2025. Throughout their investigation, detectives say they tracked Gerlach to the cemetery a number of occasions by pinging his telephone.
Seems … 25 of the corpses discovered at Gerlach’s dwelling had been stolen from Mount Moriah, in response to police. A number of the stays had been over 100 years previous, whereas others had been newer — and one corpse allegedly nonetheless had a pacemaker connected.
