Pennsylvania has been dealing with a real-life tomb raider who has been breaking into mausoleums to steal human remains. After an extensive investigation, the Yeadon Borough Police Department recently arrested Jonathan Gerlach, 34. He has since been charged with 100 counts of abuse of a corpse, 100 counts of receiving stolen property, 26 counts of burglary, 26 counts of criminal trespass, and 26 counts of intentional desecration of public monuments.
There have been more than a comfortable number of stories lately involving people and human remains. Toward the tail end of 2025, there were reports of a family that believed their father had abandoned them, only to later find his bones in the backyard. In another case, someone showed up at an airport in Tampa with a bag full of human remains. Even so, this case out of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, still stands out as the most disturbing.
