Grave Robberies at Mount Moriah Cemetery

The cemetery became the scene of an extraordinary and deeply disturbing series of grave robberies.

Mount Moriah Cemetery, established in the 1850s along the Philadelphia–Yeadon border, is one of the largest and most historically significant burial grounds in Pennsylvania, containing tens of thousands of interments spanning the Civil War era through the twentieth century. Long plagued by abandonment, overgrowth,

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