A Lancaster County man accused of stealing bodies from a Philadelphia-area cemetery and keeping human remains in his home also is being investigated in the theft of two bodies from a crumbling Luzerne County mausoleum, police said in court documents.
Police said Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, stole the remains of at least 30 people from Mount Moriah Cemetery, which straddles the Philadelphia-Delaware County border.
Delaware County investigators seeking to search Gerlach’s home wrote in an affidavit that Lancaster City police received a Dec. 20 online tip titled “corpse in basement,” which advised police to “[l]ook into Jonathan Gerlach for the Luzerne County mausoleum robbery.”
Plains Township police initially announced in November that they were investigating the removal of two bodies from the condemned Good Shepherd Memorial Mausoleum on Westminster Road between Nov. 1 and 6…