Southeast : GRIM TASK
State officials today begin the task of digging up remains from the Paradise Memorial Park in Santa Fe Springs to relocate to other cemeteries.
A 7 a.m. disinterment--to be kept private at the request of the family--was to be the first of three scheduled for this week, said Raymond Giunta, executive director of the California Cemetery Board.
State officials seized the cemetery last month after turning up evidence that its operators had unearthed bodies to resell graves. Investigators also suspect that the operators illegally buried several bodies in a single grave.
The relocations come at the request of various families who no longer want their loved ones’ remains at the scandal-plagued cemetery.
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