Second man arrested in Bartlett cemetery corpse abuse case
By Timberly Moore, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. | |
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Based on witness statements taken by an investigator in the
Taylor will face the same charges as the
Galilee was closed
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According to the affidavit, Lambert instructed Taylor to exhume Johnson's body. When Taylor opened the casket, another "older female who was not fully decomposed and obviously not
Taylor later took the men to office where he produced a separate set of records that showed the locations of gravesites containing three to four caskets.
The witnesses told the investigator they also saw the casket-stacking and knew that the families of the deceased did not grant permission to the cemetery to occupy their graves with multiple bodies.
The affidavit also said Taylor was present when Robert "Juicy" Savage crushed caskets with the wheel of a backhoe to make room for several caskets in a grave.
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Johnson's father is one of the key plaintiffs in another lawsuit seeking class status for relatives of those buried at the
Former U.S. Atty.
Taylor was released on a
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