St. Augustine Police Investigating Mysterious Headstones
Headstones Found On St. Augustine College Campus
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- St. Augustine police are trying to figure out why anyone would remove headstones from graves and carelessly dump them on a college campus.
With a little more than 200 students, the University of St. Augustine is a small school, but a discovery on school grounds is making big news across campus as a pair of granite gravestones were discovered.
"I'm glad they're just gravestones and not graves, but it's pretty sad that someone would deface a grave like that," student Jeff Jadczak said.
"It's kind of bizarre. We never see anybody out here, but students and all, so we don't expect to see anything like that," student Elizabeth Northrop said.
The school's custodians made the gruesome discovery as they were cutting the grass right behind a student parking lot.
"I'm assuming it's someone who had these headstones and decided that they probably should do something with them. You know, it's a big, open parking lot," University of St. Augustine Dean of Division of Advanced Studies Dr. Richard Jensen said.
One headstone is marked Jerry Johnson. He was 26 years old and died in 1975. The other headstone belongs to a 3-year-old girl named Jane, last initial C. She died in 1918.
St. Augustine police say that they're baffled.
"Yes, I checked with the several cemeteries in the area and nobody is missing a tombstone, and there hasn't been any vandalism to a tombstone at this time," St. Augustine Police Officer Jacques Alexander (pictured, left) said.
Police say that they haven't checked with all of the old, historical cemeteries yet either, and say that it's what they plan to do next.
They do believe the headstones were in the ground for a while because of the dates and the condition they were found in.
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With a little more than 200 students, the University of St. Augustine is a small school, but a discovery on school grounds is making big news across campus as a pair of granite gravestones were discovered.
"I'm glad they're just gravestones and not graves, but it's pretty sad that someone would deface a grave like that," student Jeff Jadczak said.
"It's kind of bizarre. We never see anybody out here, but students and all, so we don't expect to see anything like that," student Elizabeth Northrop said.
The school's custodians made the gruesome discovery as they were cutting the grass right behind a student parking lot.
"I'm assuming it's someone who had these headstones and decided that they probably should do something with them. You know, it's a big, open parking lot," University of St. Augustine Dean of Division of Advanced Studies Dr. Richard Jensen said.
One headstone is marked Jerry Johnson. He was 26 years old and died in 1975. The other headstone belongs to a 3-year-old girl named Jane, last initial C. She died in 1918.
St. Augustine police say that they're baffled.
"Yes, I checked with the several cemeteries in the area and nobody is missing a tombstone, and there hasn't been any vandalism to a tombstone at this time," St. Augustine Police Officer Jacques Alexander (pictured, left) said.
Police say that they haven't checked with all of the old, historical cemeteries yet either, and say that it's what they plan to do next.
They do believe the headstones were in the ground for a while because of the dates and the condition they were found in.
Copyright 2003 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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