It's complicated by the fact that many less well-off families couldn't afford a monument or grave marker. It might be a bit confusing on Judgment Day.
Posted on 01/17/2023 12:59:11 PM PST by Red Badger
MILTON, Fla. -- Milton police are investigating Monday after a body was discovered in an unmarked grave in the Historic Milton Cemetery.
The body was discovered Monday morning after members of a funeral home were digging a grave in preparation of a funeral.
VIDEO AT SITE.....................
Milton Police Chief Tindell told WEAR Monday that cemetery records do not show that a body was buried in the location where the discovery was made.
Chief Tindell says the burial could be at least 20 years old.
Chief Tindell mentioned that there was a granite slab weighing more than 1,200 pounds over the burial plot.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Medical Examiners Office have been called to the the scene to exhume the remains.
Chief Tindell says there is currently nothing that they have seen to suspect foul play.
According to the cemetery's website, some of the graves date back to the 1830's.
Try the grave next to Arch.
Have the FBI run it for prints...
“Chief Tindell mentioned that there was a granite slab weighing more than 1,200 pounds over the grave.”
There’s your first clue, genius boy. Placing a “ledger” is expensive and only done AFTER a burial.
It's complicated by the fact that many less well-off families couldn't afford a monument or grave marker. It might be a bit confusing on Judgment Day.
I actually live in this town. Are there other freepes here?
If you have a body to get rid of a cemetery is actually a great place to do so. If you think about it.
ISWYDT!.....................
Yes, it is. It is right down the street about 100 yards from my doctor’s office and Santa Rosa Medical Center.
I got a laugh every time I pass it, thinking, “How convenient!”................
I’m definitely not Alan Turing.
I just read one of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries where a man was buried alive in a small hole by a jilted lover who helped him remove the very large stone cover, then when he was in the hole to retrieve the treasure buried there, she jerked out the stick that held the stone up...............
Probably quite a few between Panama City and Mobile.................
Yes, another Sherlock Holmes mystery I read last week was where a wealthy woman had disappeared and the kidnappers were going to bury her alive inside a casket with a false bottom with a really old dead person on top so it would not be questioned..............
Is this a canonical or a pastiche ?
Ditto
I’m thinking it’s just bad record keeping over the years. This cemetery dates back to before the Civil War.............
Books would have spotted the plan as soon as he so much as glanced at that “extra deep” coffin. There are three or four such improbabilities in the Holmes stories.
Holmes never saw the coffin until they went to the house to rescue the lady. He merely deduced the extra large coffin since the woman at the funeral parlor said it was a special order and took extra time to deliver..............
Didn’t Holmes and Watson go into the house and see the old lady in the coffin?
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