8 sets of remains found in single Arlington grave

[Dennis Donovan]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/03/arlington.cemetery.probe/index.html?hpt=T1

Washington (CNN) -- A "suspect" discovery at Arlington National Cemetery has led to a criminal investigation into how eight sets of human remains ended up in a single grave at America's most famous military burial ground.

It is the first criminal investigation after a series of recent revelations of misplaced human remains at Arlington.

The cemetery was tipped off this fall about a possible problem involving urns found in a pile of dirt several years ago by a contractor working at the cemetery.

When Kathryn Condon, who oversees the cemetery, asked about the two urns the contractor saw, an employee let her know that someone should look at a particular gravesite marked "Unknown."

Condon, who is executive director of the Army Cemeteries Program, called the Army's Criminal Investigation Command to help investigate.
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[Historic NY]

1. Absolutely a disgrace. I hope they prosecute to the highest extent...

How can there be modern unknowns interred?

[TorchTheWitch]

2. It's a lot worse than just this

There was a thread here a day or two ago that covered the mess at Arlington Cemetary but it was a lot worse than just this one grave with eight peoples remains in it and had lots of pictures. I'll try to find it again. There were many many wrong people put in wrong graves, mixing up of tombstones and no bodies in graves that should have had one as well as a number of tombstones lying in a creek at least one of which may have been there from some time in the 1980's. The photos were absolutely apalling to see.