(New York Post) Whatever happened to letting someone rest in peace?
A man with an apparent 48-year grudge has been going each morning to urinate on the grave of his ex, much to the horror of her furious kids, who realized something was wrong when they discovered bags of poop left at their mom’s final resting place.
“I felt like getting out and killing him,” said Michael Andrew Murphy, 43, told The Post of what it was like to catch the man he says has been desecrating the burial site of his mom, Linda Torello.
The siblings got permission from a cemetery manager to place trail cameras in the trees to see if they could catch the vandal.Michael Andrew Murphy
The man was caught urinating and leaving feces on the grave of his ex-wife.Michael Andrew Murphy
Torello, 66, died of cancer in 2017 and is buried just over the state line in the cemetery at Tappan Reformed Church in Orangetown, NY.
Murphy and his sister first noticed a plastic bag of poop at their mother’s grave in April and thought it was something left by mistake by a dog walker.
But then it happened again.
Michael Andrew Murphy was furious after finding out who was desecrating his mother’s grave.Michael Andrew Murphy
The siblings called the cops, who took a report. Determined to figure out what was going on, the pair got permission from a cemetery manager to place trail cameras in the trees to see if they could catch the vandal.
The man drove to the cemetery almost every morning with his current wife. Michael Andrew Murphy
When they checked the camera footage, they spotted the gross grave visitor: a man who was briefly married to Torello in the 1970s.
The footage was too blurry and grainy to take to authorities, so a week ago, Murphy and his sister got up at 5 a.m. to drive to the cemetery and laid in wait. Murphy set up his smartphone on a nearby headstone to take better photos and hid behind a small shed.
