Dive summary:
- A headstone belonging to a six-month-year-old child was found in a recycling bin in Council Bluffs, Iowa, police are searching for family or anyone with information but haven’t found anything yet.
- Police have checked with local cemeteries and funeral directors but have found no record of the child’s gravesite.
- Police Capt., Terry LeMaster said he thinks someone stole the marker thinking that it was solid copper, after discovering it was only copper coated, they threw it in a recycling bin.
From the article:
Perhaps the thief had a heart after all.
An odd recycling find has led Council Bluffs Police to ask the community for help in identifying where a portion of a headstone belongs.
Council Bluffs Police Capt. Terry LeMaster said employees at the Council Bluffs Recycling Center found a plaque in a recycling bin last week. The plaque appears to be part of a grave marker belonging to Megan Alaine Kjellberg, a 6-month-old child who died a day after New Year’s in 1986. ...
