A man harboring a 48-year old grudge against his ex-wife was caught urinating on the woman’s grave every morning, much to the horror of her furious kids.
The kids realized something wasn’t right when they found bags of poop left at their mom’s final resting place.
“I felt like getting out and killing him,” said Michael Andrew Murphy, 43, of what it was like to catch the man he says has been desecrating the burial site of his mom, Linda Torello.
Torello, 66, passed away from 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 mistakenly left behind by a dog walker.
However, the incident ended up happening again.
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.
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 very grainy and blurred, so we were unable to take it to police. So a week ago, My sister and I got up at 5 a.m. to drive to the cemetery and laid in wait. I set up my smartphone on a nearby headstone to take better pictures and I hid behind a small shed,” Murphy said.
“The video and pictures we got indicated that the man drove to the cemetery almost every morning between 6:14 a.m. and 6:18 a.m. with his current wife. He would get out of the car, walk over to my mom’s grave, and pee on it. I can’t get my wife to go out to dinner but this guy gets his wife to go along with him to desecrate my mom’s remains every morning!” Murphy angrily vented his frustration at the man desecrating his mother’s resting place.
“I was shaking while I was hiding. My sister was crying. … I was sick I was so angry,” he said of the situation.
Murphy claims he’s gone to the cops at least three times and they refuse to let him speak to a detective.
“I don’t know if the man owns a dog, or is sh-tting in a bag himself, or is getting some dog sh-t,” Murphy said. “All I know is that he’s using my mother’s grave as his toilet every morning.”
The man, whose name can’t be revealed, since he has not been charged for the crime, continues to still go about his same demeaning routine.
“That man left my mother when she was pregnant and never had anything to do with his biological daughter, except for one time. Earlier this year, he ran into his daughter and said he wished she were dead and cursed her and my mom,” Murphy said upset about how his sister and mom were treated.
“He could have been peeing out there for five years and we wouldn’t have known it,” Murphy said. “We only found out because of the feces.”
So far police have not taken any action despite obvious evidence of the man committing such an awful crime.
Say what you will. the man’s commitment is inspiring.
Glad they got along so well
This act is very degrading and I understand why
the son and daughter are so upset. This man
has a serious problem; as does his wife!
Confront him in the middle of his relieving himself and see how “relieved” he is then. See if he or his wife is on FB and then post the videos to their page. What a low life jerk! I can’t believe his wife would stand for that! They are some fine, upstanding human beings that have a pathetic life if that’s all they live for every single day. I’d want to beat the sh*% out of him and probably would if I had the chance —
and I’ve never been in a fight in my life!
Wear gloves, bow & arrow. He’ll drop right now. Clean, quite, permanent solution.
Get it done!
Ask him how he likes beanie weenies. Kick him in the frank and beans while he’s peeing. Say how’s that feel jerk face.