In the mind of this ex-husband, he was determined to not let his ex-wife’s soul rest in peace. Revenge does not stop after death. A man with a 48-year grudge has been going each morning to urinate on the grave of his ex and her children were not happy with his indecent act.
“I felt like getting out and killing him,” said Michael Andrew Murphy, 43-year-old son of the deceased woman. He was furious to witness the man urinating on the burial site of his mom, Linda Torello.
Torello, 66, died of cancer and was buried over the state line in the cemetery at Tappan Reformed Church in Orangetown, New York.
In the beginning, Murphy and his sister noticed a plastic bag of poop at their mother’s grave and thought it was dog poop left by a dog walker. However, the “accident” was a reoccurring problem; either the dog found a new favorite pooping spot or someone was doing it intentionally.
The siblings reported the incident to the cops and they were set to figure out what was going on. The pair got permission from a cemetery manager to place trail cameras in the trees to see if they could catch the act red-handed. When they checked the camera footage, they spotted the gross grave visitor: a man who was briefly married to Torello.
Unfortunately, the footage was too blurry and grainy to take to authorities. Murphy and his sister went for an early morning drive to the cemetery and lay in wait. Murphy set up his smartphone on a nearby headstone to take better photos and hid behind a small shed.
Murphy said the video and pictures he and his sister got indicated that the man drove to the cemetery almost every morning with his current wife, got out of the car, walked to Torello’s grave and peed on it.
It must have been a twisted date with his wife. “I can’t get my wife to go out to dinner but this guy gets his wife to go along with him to desecrate my mom’s remains every morning!” Murphy raged.
“I don’t know if the man owns a dog, or is sh*tting in a bag himself, or is getting some dog sh*t,” Murphy said. “All I know is that he’s using my mother’s grave as his toilet every morning. He could have been peeing out there for five years and we wouldn’t have known it. We only found out because of the feces.”