A cemetery owner was given ten years of probation for stacking multiple caskets in single graves, which left behind disorganized burial records and unkempt graves with missing markers. The cemetery was closed and placed under receivership. Upon the closing, there were extensive efforts to identify the bodies buried, but some cases amounted to the “best guess approach.” Accordingly, the judge overseeing the case has agreed to wind down the state’s oversight of the cemetery. Laws regulating cemeteries are lax and inconsistent, increasing the possibility of reoccurrence.
See Cemetery Mess, Unidentified Bodies Stump Tennessee Officials, Fox News, August 18, 2016.
