Video From Inside Serial Grave Robber, Jonathan Gerlach’s Storage Unit Is Straight Out Of A Horror Movie

Bones and skulls seen in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on the outskirts of Philadelphia led police to a basement containing a large cache of human remains, authorities said. A man is now accused of stealing roughly 100 sets of remains.

Police said a Tuesday night arrest concluded a monthlong investigation into a series of break-ins at Mount Moriah Cemetery, where at least 26 mausoleums and burial vaults had been broken into since early November.

Following the arrest, investigators searched the Ephrata home and a storage unit belonging to 34-year-old Jonathan Christ Gerlach. Authorities reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos, and other skeletal remains.

“They were in various states,” Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said. “Some were hanging, some were assembled, and others were simply skulls placed on a shelf.”