Bones - Jonathan Christian Gerlach

True Crimecast

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True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In January 2026, Pennsylvania police conducting surveillance at a historic cemetery spotted a man emerging from the shadows with a crowbar and a burlap bag. What was inside that bag launched an investigation into what authorities called "a horror movie come to life." This episode of True Crime To-Go digs into the macabre case of Jonathan Christian Gerlach. We explore the discovery of over 100 human remains—including skulls, mummified limbs, and even an active pacemaker—hidden in a basement and a storage unit. It’s a story of graveyard desecration on an industrial scale and a man who treated a 200-year-old cemetery like his personal warehouse.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.4	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.0	Yeah, so I know this is going to sound weird, but I don't want like chicken. I just want bones.
0:22.0	Give me all the bones that you have.
0:24.5	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.3	Welcome to true crime to go.
0:33.6	I am John here with Jamie.
0:35.7	How you doing, man?
0:36.4	Can we just get back to robberies or like animals
0:39.4	breaking into places? Yeah, that may- We have funeral fraud and bones. Yeah, well,
0:45.2	I'm afraid my intro may have led you to believe that we're going to be talking about chicken bones,
0:50.5	but we're not. We're going to be talking about human bones that were found in a basement.
0:56.3	Yes, which is drastically worse than chicken bones.
0:59.6	There are probably some of those in my basement.
1:01.2	You know what?
1:02.0	I'm going to give you the honor.
1:03.0	Why don't you get us rolling today?
1:04.0	I also don't have a basement.
1:05.1	So there's that.
1:05.9	So this comes from Pennsylvania where there's an investigation into a repeated grave robber. Is that right?
1:14.9	Yeah. Okay. Sorry. I thought I read that wrong. So. Which I, you know, I didn't think that was something
1:20.5	that happens nowadays. I only think of that as being an 1800s problem. Yeah. I mean, you look around and
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