Overview
- Jonathan Christian Gerlach, 34, is jailed in Delaware County on $1 million bail with a preliminary hearing set for January 20.
- Searches of his Ephrata home and a storage locker recovered more than 100 skulls, numerous bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos, and eight additional corpses.
- Detectives tracked his phone and vehicle to Mount Moriah Cemetery and say they caught him leaving with a burlap bag holding the remains of two small children, three skulls, and other bones.
- Authorities allege he forced open mausoleums and vaults and had stolen tools commonly used in burglaries from a local hardware store.
- Investigators are examining social media and payment profiles linked to alleged sales, including posts in a Facebook bones-selling group and reports he traveled to Chicago to sell a skull.