YOU DURING THIS NEWSCAST.
>>> TONIGHT YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE
NOW WHAT CEMETERY WORKERS HAVE
BEEN DOING WITHOUT PERMISSION
FROM GRIEVING FAMILIES.
13 INVESTIGATES DOCUMENTED THE
ACTIVITY AT A HUGE LOCAL
CEMETERY.
>> WHAT'S BEEN CAUGHT ON CAMERA
IS PROMPTING CHANGES.
OUR BOB SAYS THOSE CHANGES
IMPACT HUNDREDS OF GRAVE SITES.
>> Reporter: A LIGHT SNOW AT THE
CEMETERY LOOKS LIKE A SOFT
BLANKET.
BUT THAT THIN WHITE COATING
CANNOT HIDE SOME BIG PROBLEMS.
>> IT'S RIGHT HERE.
>> Reporter: THROUGHOUT THIS
100-ACRE CEMETERY.
>> THERE IT STILL IS.
>> Reporter: PROBLEMS THEY'VE
BEEN COMPLAIN BEING FOR MONTHS.
>> IT'S A RANDOM HEAD STONE
THAT'S BEEN LAYING HERE SINCE
THE
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BEC
BEM
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>> Reporter: THAT HEAD STONE IS
SITTING RIGHT ON TOP OF A GRAVE
WHERE STACY'S PARENTS ARE
BURIED.
A FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR
RELIGIONER AND BONNIE WILLIAMS,
ALSO WHERE THEY RECENTLY FOUND
THE HEAD STONE OF DONALD MARKLIN
AND HIS WIFE, WHO PASSED AWAY
THREE MONTHS AGO.
>> THIS DOESN'T BELONG HERE?
>> NO.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT'S
SUPPOSED TO GO.
THEY'RE ALL OVER.
>> Reporter: SHE'S RIGHT.
ALL ACROSS FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL
GARDENS, HEAD STONES
MYSTERIOUSLY PLACED ON GRAVE
SITES WHERE THEY DON'T BELONG.
HENDRICKS ON OTHERS.
POWELL THE DOUBLED UP ON THE
GUNNS.
HOLTON SITTING ON TROMYER.
MARKING THE SAME GRAVE.
>> I DON'T KNOW.
IT'S NOT RIGHT.
>> IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
>> Reporter: THEY ALSO DON'T
UNDERSTAND THIS.
HOW CEMETERY WORKERS TREAT GRAVE
SITES WHILE THEY OPERATE HEAVY
MACHINERY.
STACY RECORDED THIS VIDEO A FEW
WEEKS AGO WHEN SHE NOTICED THE
BACKHOES DRIVING DIRECTLY OVER
FOREST LAWN HEAD STONES.
13 INVESTIGATES ALSO SAW TIRE
TRACKS ALL ACROSS THE CEMETERY.
SOME OF THOSE TRACKS LEAD
DIRECTLY OVER BRONZE AND GRANITE
MARKERS, LEAVING MANY OF THEM
WARPED AND CRACKED.
>> YOU DON'T DO THAT.
IT'S DIARESPECTFUL.
>> Reporter: DRAINAGE PROBLEMS
INSIDE THE CEMETERY HAVE LEFT
OTHER HEAD STONES SUNKEN AND
COVERED IN WATER OR MUD EVERY
TIME IT RAINS OR SNOWS.
NOT THE TYPE OF PLACE THEY WERE
HOPING FOR WHEN THEY LAID HER
PARENTS TO REST.
>> IF YOU LOOK AROUND, IT'S A
MESS.
IT'S UNACCEPTABLE,
DISRESPECTFUL.
>> Reporter: EVEN THE CEMETERY
AGREED.
>> THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
>> Reporter: DW KELLY IS THE NEW
GENERAL MANAGER AT FOREST LAWN.
HE MET WITH THE BENNETTS AND 13
INVESTIGATES WHEN HE SAW OUR
CAMERAS AT THE CEMETERY.
HE SAID WHEN HIS GROUNDS CREWS
ARE DIGGING AND FILLING GRAVES,
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO LAY DOWN
PLYWOOD TO PROTECT THE GRAVE
SITES.
WE DID SEE SOME AREAS WHERE
THAT'S HAPPENING.
BUT KELLY ADMITTED IT'S NOT
HAPPENING ENOUGH.
>> IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN
THE BOARDS ARE PLACED IN THERE.
MY GOAL GOING FORWARD IS TO MAKE
SURE ON THIS PROPERTY WE BOARD
IN ON EVERY GRAVE TO MAKE SURE
THE INTEGRITY IS PROTECTED.
>> Reporter: AS FAR AS HEAD
STONES DUMPED ON OTHER GRAVE
SITES --
>> THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN.
>> WHEN THE GRAVE IS OPENED FOR
A BURIAL, THE STONE IS REMOVED
AND IT'S SET TO THE SIDE.
SO IN THIS CASE, IT SHOULD NOT
BE RIGHT ON TOP OF THIS FAMILY'S
SPACE.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SET OVER TO
THE SIDE SO THAT CAN BE EASILY
RECTIFIED WITH MY CREW.
>> Reporter: THE CEMETERY
PLEDGED TO FIX IT RIGHT AWAY.
>> IT SHOULD NOT BE SITTING
HERE.
ABSOLUTELY.
WE'LL GET IT MOVED TODAY.
>> Reporter: GOOD NEWS FOR THE
BENNETTS.
BUT THEY WONDER WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO ALL THE OTHER GRAVE SITES
THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TREATED AS
THEY SHOULD BE.
>> IT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
YOU DON'T TREAT THE DECEASED
THAT WAY.
>> Reporter: THE EXTRA GRAVE
STONE HAS BEEN REMOVED.
THE NEW GENERAL MANAGER AT
FOREST LAWN TOLD ME HE'S WILLING
TO MEET WITH EVERY FAMILY THAT
HAS A CONCERN SO IT CAN BE
ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY.
HE ALSO SAID HE'S HIRING NEW
GROUNDS CREW, CHANGING MOWING
PROCEDURES AND REPAIRING BROKEN
HEAD STONES THROUGHOUT THE
CEMETERY.
>> THE THINGS YOU SAW AT FOREST
LAWN SEEMED PRETTY UNUSUAL.
ARE THESE PROBLEMS COMMON AT
OTHER CEMETERIES?
>> GOOD QUESTION.
I ACTUALLY TALKED TO THE INDIANA
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
THE DIRECTOR THERE SAYS WHAT YOU
JUST SAW IS IN HIS WORDS,
PROBLEMATIC AND DISRESPECTFUL
AND HE SAYS MOST CEMETERIES DO
NOT DO THINGS LIKE THAT.
WHAT HE DID SAY IS UNUSUAL IS
THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOT HAD
ANY FROZEN GROUND WHICH REALLY
CREATES A CHALLENGE FOR
CEMETERIES.
ALL THE MORE REASON, HE SAID,
THAT CEMETERIES ABSOLUTELY MUST
USE PLYWOOD OR OTHER PROTECTION
TO PROTECT GRAVE MARKERS AND THE
TURF UNTIL THINGS GET A LITTLE