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Disgraced Cemetery Manager Expelled

The cemetery manager was accused of burying the newly-dead in previously-filled gravesites.

BRIDGEPORT, CT — The Park Cemetery manager was ordered by a judge to stay away from the cemetery except to visit the graves of loved ones.

Dale LaPrade was accused of using previously-filled grave plots for new gravesites, according to the Connecticut Post. Family members of the interned had been pushing for Laprades ousting.

Police found headstones and bones that had been moved in the graveyard, according to police. A gravedigger said LaPrade gave the order to move bones and caskets.

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