Carnahan’s Headstone Taken From Cemetery

The granite grave marker of former Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died last year in a plane crash, was stolen from a southern Missouri cemetery, family members said.

“Now why would somebody take this? They can’t sell it. They can’t show it off,” said Edwina Carnahan, the late governor’s first cousin who tends the grave site. “It just grieves us to think it was someone’s idea of a joke.”

She said it would have taken two people to move the 80-pound gray headstone.