Our investigation into this cemetery began four years ago when we caught Cederick McMillian and three others loading a casket back into a hearse at a gravesite. Prichard Police stopped the service due to a moratorium on burials at Heritage Memorial Cemetery. In June 2019, the sheriff's office raided a church and discovered coffins investigators said had been reused. Investigators then dug up and documented three graves at the cemetery as distraught loved ones watched. Funeral director Joseph Bonner was put in handcuffs on site. Bonner and McMillian were both charged with corpse abuse. This year, a settlement agreement was reached in a separate civil deceptive trade practices case the district attorney brought against them. Bonner and McMillian must now move 14 people buried at Heritage Memorial Cemetery to Whispering Pines Cemetery across the street at no cost to the families.
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