{"id":83179,"date":"2026-01-10T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:47:23","slug":"100-sets-of-human-remains-stolen-from-delco-cemetery-possibly-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83179\/","title":{"rendered":"100 sets of human remains stolen from Delco cemetery, possibly others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Lancaster County man is accused of being behind a string of thefts involving human remains at <a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofmountmoriahcemetery.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mount Moriah Cemetery<\/a> in Yeadon.\n<\/p>\n<p>Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse <a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/Report\/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-32247-CR-0000006-2026&amp;dnh=ulU%2FETiecJDSOxy28aWw4g%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, with about 500 counts of trespassing, abuse of a corpse and theft for allegedly stealing remains.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s announcement follows two months of burglary reports at the historic cemetery, which spans through Philadelphia and Yeadon. Detectives conducted a stakeout Tuesday evening of the property and witnessed\u00a0 Gerlach\u2019s car with \u201cnumerous bones and skulls in plain view in the back seat of the vehicle.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from the district attorney\u2019s office, Gerlach allegedly exited the premises with a burlap bag and a crowbar. Officers detained Gerlach and said that he admitted to stealing human remains from 30 grave sites at Mount Moriah Cemetery.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly\u2019s suburbs do you want WHYY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,41356,69,71,70,12212],"class_list":{"0":"post-83179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware-county","9":"tag-mount-moriah-cemetery","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-yeadon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}