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Why disturb San Diego's dead?
Digging up an Old Town grave with a wooden cross
"Did everyone see the huge fire in the cemetery last night?"
In recent months, there have been troubling reports of disrespect, vandalism, and accidents at cemeteries and memorials across San Diego County.
On March 20, at around 9:00 pm, Irene T. saw a woman at the historic El Campo Santo cemetery in Old Town messing with the gravesites and "broke a wooden cross with her bare hands, and used it to try to dig up a grave." Irene, who said she worked in Old Town, posted a photo of the broken cross on our NextDoor community page and added that the "crazy woman" blocked the entrance — of the second oldest cemetery in the city which has burials dating back to 1849— and grabbed rocks from grave sites "threatening to throw the rocks, threatening to call the sheriff on anyone who challenged her. Irene called SDPD to assess the cemetery but with no luck, "because there was no victim it's not on the priority list."
She grabbed rocks from grave sites "threatening to throw the rocks."
On March 8, in Deer Springs, north of Escondido, News Flash Media SD reported that a red truck careened through three memorials with flowers and a wooden cross by Lawrence Welk Court and Lawrence Welk Drive. The truck reportedly fell down a cliff, leaving the wreckage hundreds of feet from a broken cross and scattered flowers from the memorials. The outlet added that one person was hospitalized from the crash, and it was believed that only one person was inside the truck when it went off the road.
A few days before that, in the Mount Hope neighborhood, Monica Canizalez posted on NextDoor, asking, "Did everyone see the huge fire in the cemetery last night? The embers started a secondary fire down Market St." Crime & Safety Updates, which is connected to our first responders on the site, followed up by stating that firefighters responded to a report of a fire in a cemetery at Boundary and Market Streets.
Deer Springs
On February 26, Amy Q. from the Swan Canyon neighborhood in City Heights posted online about an incident at a memorial near the corner of Thorne and Chamoune. She worried about someone collecting cans and bottles—likely items left to pay homage to the now-passed loved one—were removed from the memorial. "I just thought it was kind of messed up," she noted. An Elizabeth from Eastlake shared her perspective on memorials and mementos left at gravesites: "They can’t just keep piling up. So long as it’s being recycled... either way, it would’ve been recycled by the family or friends who put it there when they go visit the memorial."
In November, bronze and copper vases were stolen from gravesites at the Glenn Abbey Memorial Park and Mortuary in Bonita. In a CBS 8 News report, some families chained the vases down in hopes of protecting the gravesites.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Why disturb San Diego's dead?
Digging up an Old Town grave with a wooden cross
Why disturb San Diego's dead?
Digging up an Old Town grave with a wooden cross
"Did everyone see the huge fire in the cemetery last night?"
In recent months, there have been troubling reports of disrespect, vandalism, and accidents at cemeteries and memorials across San Diego County.
On March 20, at around 9:00 pm, Irene T. saw a woman at the historic El Campo Santo cemetery in Old Town messing with the gravesites and "broke a wooden cross with her bare hands, and used it to try to dig up a grave." Irene, who said she worked in Old Town, posted a photo of the broken cross on our NextDoor community page and added that the "crazy woman" blocked the entrance — of the second oldest cemetery in the city which has burials dating back to 1849— and grabbed rocks from grave sites "threatening to throw the rocks, threatening to call the sheriff on anyone who challenged her. Irene called SDPD to assess the cemetery but with no luck, "because there was no victim it's not on the priority list."
She grabbed rocks from grave sites "threatening to throw the rocks."
On March 8, in Deer Springs, north of Escondido, News Flash Media SD reported that a red truck careened through three memorials with flowers and a wooden cross by Lawrence Welk Court and Lawrence Welk Drive. The truck reportedly fell down a cliff, leaving the wreckage hundreds of feet from a broken cross and scattered flowers from the memorials. The outlet added that one person was hospitalized from the crash, and it was believed that only one person was inside the truck when it went off the road.
A few days before that, in the Mount Hope neighborhood, Monica Canizalez posted on NextDoor, asking, "Did everyone see the huge fire in the cemetery last night? The embers started a secondary fire down Market St." Crime & Safety Updates, which is connected to our first responders on the site, followed up by stating that firefighters responded to a report of a fire in a cemetery at Boundary and Market Streets.
Deer Springs
On February 26, Amy Q. from the Swan Canyon neighborhood in City Heights posted online about an incident at a memorial near the corner of Thorne and Chamoune. She worried about someone collecting cans and bottles—likely items left to pay homage to the now-passed loved one—were removed from the memorial. "I just thought it was kind of messed up," she noted. An Elizabeth from Eastlake shared her perspective on memorials and mementos left at gravesites: "They can’t just keep piling up. So long as it’s being recycled... either way, it would’ve been recycled by the family or friends who put it there when they go visit the memorial."
In November, bronze and copper vases were stolen from gravesites at the Glenn Abbey Memorial Park and Mortuary in Bonita. In a CBS 8 News report, some families chained the vases down in hopes of protecting the gravesites.
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