Who is Jonathan Gerlach? Friends describe central Pa. man charged in grave-robbing spree

“Until we manage to shed our skin and bear light to the things that we’re ashamed of within, how can we expect to heal these broken bones?” — Doulereux — Blind/Bird (Jonathan Gerlach)

Themes of pain, love, death, faith and heartbreak run through the songs and social media posts created a decade ago by a Warwick High School graduate who police say broke into at least 26 underground vaults and mausoleums in an abandoned cemetery. Investigators intercepted Jonathan Gerlach walking to his vehicle carrying a burlap bag containing two mummified remains of small children, three skulls and other assorted bones, charging documents said.

Investigators said he stored 100 human skulls, mummified hands and feet and decomposing torsos in the basement of his Ephrata Borough home…

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