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BRIAN Laundrie shared a series of dark and disturbing posts about ghosts and witchcraft to Pinterest shortly before his fiancee Gabby Petito was found dead at a campsite in Wyoming. Laundrie, 23, is not currently considered a suspect in the death of Gabby, 22, but has been identified as a person of interest. Brian Laundrie's digital footprint has been raising questions in recent weeks Prior to his vanishing, Laundrie failed to report Gabby missing and refused to cooperate with a police investigation into her disappearance. In a statement issued by his attorney, Steve Bertolino, at the time, it was claimed...

The family of a Colorado preacher’s wife is still fuming after the director of the city-owned cemetery refused to engrave her final resting place with the name ‘Jesus’ because it might offend people. The city eventually reversed course under public pressure. “We were in disbelief,” said Stacy Adams, the daughter-in-law of Linda Baker. “Who tries to censor Jesus from a cemetery?” “At first they told us it wouldn’t fit,” Adams said. “But after we kept pushing them the cemetery director told us that it might offend somebody. They weren’t going to allow it.” The family was devastated and asked the...

The family of a Colorado preacher’s wife is still fuming after the director of the city-owned cemetery refused to engrave her final resting place with the name ‘Jesus’ because it might offend people. The city eventually reversed course under public pressure. “We were in disbelief,” said Stacy Adams, the daughter-in-law of Linda Baker. “Who tries to censor Jesus from a cemetery?” Linda Baker lost her battle with cancer last week. She was the wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid. Adams said her mother-in-law was passionate about her Christian faith and her family. Her final...

LYNN, Mass. Commissioners of a Massachusetts cemetery said they rejected a proposed grave stone inscription due to the inclusion of profanity. The Pine Grove Cemetery commission in Lynn voted 6-0 to bar Sonny Santiago's family from inscribing his grave stone with lines of verse he wrote that include profanity, The Daily Item, Lynn, reported Thursday. Santiago died in a motor vehicle crash Feb. 23 at the age of 23. "You gonna remember the damn name, I give a [expletive] if I die with no damn friends, I got my fam by my side and that's until the end," the proposed...

Mocked in Life. Mocked in Death. See ya What the …..? No, not OK Sorry for your loss, Loss Yep, that’ll kill ya Speaks for its self I hope that’s not what killed her I was sure he was still alive. Do you know Jakshitz? He died.. It’s gotta be here somewhere The poor Dumfart is dead Is that what killed her? Yummy We know that! Oh Yes Not Anymore So said the altar boy. That’s why we bury ‘em Death is the worst Not anymore Expired At least they got a Proper burial Dead Dead Yes, zees ees...

Peggy Eubanks had been visiting the graveyard near Luxomni Baptist Church in Lilburn every day for about a week, even before she heard about recent vandalism there. After hearing that a man had been arrested over the weekend for turning over headstones, Eubanks cruised through again Wednesday afternoon to make sure her father's fresh grave remained undisturbed. Police had arrested Ezekiel Dejesus-Rodriguez, 24, early Saturday morning shortly after pulling him out from under a granite gravestone. Lilburn police found him about 2:40 a.m. after answering a call about moaning and shouting in the area. They found him screaming "No!" in...

On a pleasant hillside in the Vacaville-Elmira cemetery in California, there is a grave that still has no gravestone almost two years after a brave young soldier was buried there. According to his mother, he was born on Memorial Day and died at age 24 on April 4, 2004, fighting with the First Cavalry Division in a militia- and terrorist-infested district of Baghdad named Sadr City. He was not an unknown soldier. In fact, thanks to his mother's constant use of his name in media appearances, he may be the best-known soldier of the Iraqi war. He's Casey Austin Sheehan,...