Southeast : CEMETERY SCANDAL
About 300 people a day continue to flood into Paradise Memorial Park--a Santa Fe Springs cemetery where bodies were unearthed and plots allegedly resold--to determine whether the graves of their deceased loved ones were desecrated, an official said Thursday.
State cemetery officials await word from Gov. Pete Wilson on their request for $671,000 in emergency funding to pay for the continuing review of cemetery records, maintenance and repairs to the graveyard, and the relocation of some remains to other cemeteries, said Raymond Giunta, executive director of the California Cemetery Board.
The first three disinterments and relocations are scheduled for next week at the request of the surviving relatives, he said.
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