A family says a Bergen County man was caught on video in the act of urinating on their matriarch's grave in Rockland County last Sunday.
Michael Murphy said his late mother, Linda Torello, is the man's ex-wife.
"I could see him up there like this & I could hear the urine hitting the ground & my heart..." Murphy recounted, choking up as he described what he witnessed last Sunday, when he shot a video and caught the man who'd been desecrating his mother's grave.
It all started back in April when Murphy & his sister started finding deli bags filled with feces near their mother's headstone.
They initially thought it may have been left behind by a careless dog walker or a dog owner. But after the second bag was found, they knew they'd been left there intentionally.
Murphy & his family got the greenlight from Tappan Cemetery in Rockland County, where their mother is buried, to install cameras to catch the culprit.
Camera timestamps showed the man coming to grave while his wife waited in the car around 6:15 a.m. for 4 consecutive days last week.
On the fifth day, Murphy propped his camera on a nearby headstone & shot the video & confirmed the culprit was his deceased mother's ex-husband, who she'd divorced over 4 decades ago.
Murphy & his family want more serious charges than just public urination and hope for legislation that will make it a crime.
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Source: News12
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