'How would he feel if I dug up his mother?': Families targeted in grave robbery speak out

Now, we are learning more information tonight about the man accused of stealing more than 100 human skeletal remains from a graveyard in Delaware County. Today, investigators were back at the home of 34year-old Jonathan Gerlock searching for more evidence. Detectives say they were able to track him down because he left a trail of energy drinks and cigarettes in the graveyard. Action News reporter John Paul covering the story live for us now in Swathmore with the very latest. John, you had a chance to speak to a family that's been impacted by all of this. >> That's right. In fact, the family still lives here on one of the homesteads left to them by a family member who was buried at Mount Mariah Cemetery more than a hundred years ago. Now, listen, police have been asking anyone who has family members buried in these mausoleiums to come forward. They're trying to figure out if they can track down these families. Well, Action News was able to do just that. We found the family whose great greatgrandfather's bones may have been stolen. Among the 26 mausoleiums a suspected grave robber broke into at Mount Nariah Cemetery is this one erected in 1912. The name above the door is Jonathan Pritchard. >> Thought to myself, I wonder if that was that's the same cemetery. >> This is Jonathan Pritchard IVth. We tracked him down today. He saw our story tonight and had no clue that his great greatgrandfather's bones could have been stolen. >> I think when you're dead, you're dead. And so he don't know anybody got his bones, but I'm not happy about it. I mean, that's twisted. How would he feel if I went and dug his mother up or something? >> Pritchard still lives on the site of one of the original family homesteads in Swarmore, but doesn't know too much about the man who was born in 1827. >> I'm embarrassed. I don't know that much. I know he built a church in the city of Philadelphia. We could have went to college on his dime if we promised to be ministers. >> Five of the nine crypts inside were damaged. The remains stolen. They could be among the more than 100 sets of skeletal remains found in the basement of Jonathan Gerlock's home in Epherta, Lancaster County. Several notable Philadelphiaians are buried in the Yen Cemetery, including John McCulla, a Philadelphia Shakespearean actor who became famous in the mid 1800s and performed at the Walnut Street Theater. His family's burial vault still shows signs of damage today. This afternoon, investigators were back at Gerlock's home, removing more bodies. We've learned that Gerlock may have been trying to sell the skeletons. Posts on his Facebook and Instagram page show some of the skulls and bones, saying, "They're available. DM me." Police discovered the remains after arresting Gerlock at the cemetery January 6th. They were doing surveillance on the site in Yaden because of the break-ins. They believe Pritchard's mausoleum was one of his targets. >> He he obviously spent a lot of money on that mausoleum and put the bone put his bones in there and wanted to be left alone and he's not >> now. Rick Sharie Jonathan Pritchard IVth has a son Jonathan Pritchard V who interestingly has been donating to the friends of Mount Mariah Cemetery so they could take care of that cemetery and the family mausoleum. Yayen police want anyone who has a mausoleum or an underground crypt to contact them but only if you had family members in a mausoleum or underground crypt there at Mount Mariah. We're live tonight in Swathmore. John Paul, Channel 6 Action News. Rick Shie, >> yeah, one of many families, I'm sure, to come forward in this story.