I attended this trial for about an hour but had to leave for another
commitment so don't know the outcome yet. One thing that came thru loud and
clear was that none of the officials (I think that would be the health
dept.) knew of the new law. While ignorance is no excuse for breaking the
law, I'm wondering how this kind of info gets disseminated (or if it does).
Neither the owner nor the contractor knew of the law, but my big question is
why didn't that come up when they applied for permits. Anyone know?
By the way, no graves were disturbed. The owner did remove the headstones
but marked them on a diagram, intending to add fill dirt and then landscape
the cemetery, replacing the stones. I'm not saying that he should have
removed the stones, but really, he was just a nice guy who didn't know about
the law.
MaryAlice Parks
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From: "Debra Rookard" <d_rookard(a)adelphia.net>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:11 PM
Subject: [INPCRP] Scalpelli's Trial
This just arrived in Dick Eastman's Weekly Online Newsletter. The
second
article included here preceded it.
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
Plus Edition
A Weekly Summary of Events and Topics of Interest to Online Genealogists
Vol. 9 No. 13 - March 29, 2004
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- Grave Markers Moved for Septic System
A Nashville, Indiana, man faces trial on charges that he moved grave
markers
at a historic cemetery to make room for a septic system for his home.
Daniel
B. Scalpelli, 48, was charged in December 2001 with disturbing
Fleetwood
Cemetery as he worked on the septic system for his new home near
Morgantown.
Scalpelli faces a felony charge of disturbing a cemetery without a permit
and misdemeanor charges of cemetery mischief and moving a grave memorial
without a recording. His bench trial, before Brown Circuit Judge Judith
Stewart, is scheduled to begin this week.
What Do You Think? Comments and discussion are available on this
newsletter's Discussion Board at:
http://www.eogn.com/discussionboard
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Modern Detective Finds Unmarked Graves
Elizabeth Wilson-Agin is a geophysicist who owns her own consulting
business
specializing in finding unmarked graves. "I'm the only one
in the United
States who does what I do that I know of," Wilson-Agin said.
"Surprisingly,
I get a lot of people that call me and want my help finding unmarked
graves."
The Kansas resident uses the latest technology to examine the soil.
Ground-penetrating radar has been used successfully in some locations.
While
Wilson-Agin has that technology available, she says that the radar
does
not
work well in the predominantly clay soil of Kansas. Her primary tool
is an
electro-magnetic conductivity meter, supplemented by a number of other
high-tech devices.
With an undergraduate degree from Kansas University in archaeology and a
master's in earth sciences/ geophysics from Emporia State, Wilson-Agin
does
not advertise at all. Almost all her clients find her via
word-of-mouth
referrals. "I've been hired by a funeral company, a cemetery board, and
the
county hired me at one location," she said. "There was the
potential for
land development near where they thought unmarked graves might exist, so
they needed to know for sure before they could proceed.
You can read more in an article by Tom Stoppel, published in the Hillsboro
Free Press. You can read that at
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11166911&BRD=1163&PAG=4....
Wilson-Agin can be reached by e-mail at infinitygeo(a)yahoo.com
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