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100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates", an episode of Annie Elise published January 15, 2026 (44 min, about 8,400 words). It mentions 6 people, works and ideas, including Mount Mariah Cemetery, Monnique Teepe, Marcel Lynn Partila, Eugene Vadrono, Jonathan Gerlatch.

What this episode is about

The content discusses a series of shocking crime stories, including the discovery of over 100 skeletons in a man's home in Alabama, and ongoing investigations into alleged neglect highlighted by a disturbing incident involving a girl found abandoned on the road. Additionally, it covers personal updates from the hosts, including their recent absences and technical issues affecting audio quality.

Key takeaways

  • Murder mysteries often expose hidden family dynamics; don't ignore the dark side of sibling love.
  • True crime podcasting: where horror meets banter, proving even chilling tales can spark funny moments.
  • Caffeine conundrum: is Celsius just Diet Coke in disguise, or a gateway to better choices?
  • Reality TV callbacks: Why is every podcaster suddenly an aspiring singer? The Masked Singer, you’ve created monsters.
  • Neglect unmasked: sometimes the scariest tales aren't fiction; they're lurking in basements next door.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Monnique Teepe
  2. – 25:00: Eugene Vadrono, Marcel Lynn Partila
  3. – 35:00: Mount Mariah Cemetery, Jonathan Gerlatch
  4. – 40:00: Mount Mariah Cemetery

Notable quotes from "100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates"

  • Right after Christmas, police responded to a home and they found Spencer and Monnique Teepe shot and killed inside.
    about Monnique Teepe · at
  • Mother that were just never kept. The girl's mother has been identified as Marcel Lynn Partila and her stepfather as Eugene Vadrono. According to the Mobile County Sheriff's…
    about Marcel Lynn Partila · at
  • Quietly, almost invisibly. So, police had been looking into repeated grave burglaries at Mount Mariah Cemetery, which is a massive historic cemetery just outside of…
    about Mount Mariah Cemetery · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Monnique Teepe — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Marcel Lynn Partila — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Eugene Vadrono — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Girl's mother has been identified as Marcel Lynn Partila and her stepfather as Eugene Vadrono. According to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, the couple had been living and…
  • Jonathan Gerlatch — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Around how this even not only happened, but how it went on for so long. So, this involves a man named Jonathan Gerlatch, 34 years old, from Pennsylvania, and he is now accused…
  • Spencer Teepe — Person · 1 mention

Places & events

Full transcript with timestamps

night. Spencer and Monnique Teffy's brother-in-law tells NBC News. When the family first learned the couple had been murdered, only one possible suspect came to mind. This is incredibly significant and not something that I don't think any of us saw coming today. Now, this arrangement is going to be postponed for a third time,

who called for help over the weekend when she spotted a girl stumbling down a road.

That phone call led deputies to uncover months of alleged neglect. A tip about a disturbing basement display straight out of a horror movie.

Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life. Hey true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serlessly. Really quickly before we get started, guys, we noticed in the editing process that something was wrong with the cables on Amy's mic. So, you will notice a little bit different audio level than usual. We have fixed it for episodes going forward. But if your ears are hating you in this episode, I am very, very sorry. Hopefully it's not so bad, but wanted to let you know what was going on. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, your host Annie Eliss. I've also got co-host in the building, Amy Colette. Hello.

Hello. Hello. Um, I feel like the last two weeks, yeah, the last two weeks you haven't been on because last week I was sick and I was doing it literally from my toilet with Nora virus off camera. Don't worry guys, TMI. And then the week before that, we took like a little break because of the holidays. So, I did the re-release of the Candy Montgomery episode because now that Netflix has bought, what is it? HBO Go, HBO Max, whatever the hell they're going by, it's now on Netflix and it was like trending. So, I re-released that case. So now you're back.

I haven't been here since our duet. Oh, the duet. The the the Christmas duet. God,

I feel like we actually got a lot more positive response than I was expecting. I was expecting to get dragged.

No, honestly, I know they're all, "You guys harmonized so well together." I'm all, "Okay, first of all, we ain't singers."

Like to tell you that we have an album coming up. No. Oh god, could you imagine? No, actually. Sorry, guys. I know some of you hate when we just like banter and talk to each other, but I haven't even talked to you about this yet. I know I sent you the Tik Tok. Speaking of podcasters who are singing, The Toast.

Oh, and The Masked Singer. So, I have never watched the show The Masked Singer ever, but I've heard about it. But when Jenny McCarthy was on The Toast a few weeks ago before there was rumors that Claudia was on, I remember listening and being like, "That could be a fun just like show to have on the TV and like see if you could guess who it is. I don't know much about it." But now it totally makes sense why she had Jenny McCarthy on because it hasn't been confirmed. She is on the Masked Singer singing. I know that voice anywhere.

I did. Yeah, I saw a clip that she was actually on it, but I've heard her in the past on her podcast say that's like her dream and she would love to be on it and she's been posting more of her singing. So maybe Yeah.

So basically guys, consider 3 weeks ago my formal audition for The Masked Singer. No, I'm just kidding. No, but also I'm trying so hard to weasel my way into traders. Like, you have no idea. I need to call Derek and be like really good.

I' I think I've even told Derek Arty because he was on it and I think I need to be like, "Look,

and you'd like make the call." Trader is and I'd be serving looks. Yeah, it'd be great. It'd be great. Um, okay. Anyway, no,

too much. Too much. I You can tell it's a wild morning. Literally, you been on one with your Celsius.

I know. Okay. Why? Here's the thing. You guys know I'm a Diet Coke girly through and through. I tried Celsius for the very first time back in October when Jeremiah did the 100 mile marathon in Big Bear. One of the doctor friends who were with us had one and they're like, "Oh, do you want to try this?" But like be

warm energy just to like be on the sidelines. Yeah. Just to just to crew my husband during the marathon. I needed a boost of energy cuz that's what a low life sack of [ __ ] I am. Um no. So, they gave me one and it was like the Coke flavor one and but they said they're like, "Be warned. You're going to be super jittery. It's like crack in a can." And I was like, "Well, I've heard about Celsius for a long time. Like, let me just try it." First of all, it tasted just like Diet Coke. Not just like, but pretty close. So, I was like, "Oh, okay." Like, it's not like Red Bull. I could get on board with this. I didn't feel jittery. I didn't feel wired, but that's probably because I take like three cans of Diet Coke to my face a day and like my caffeine levels are already through the roof. However, here's my rationale. Okay, this more I don't drink coffee. Not sometimes I will, but not very often. I usually am a

tea drinker, but the tea I like is chai a chai tea latte from Starbucks. Has like tons of calories in it. Isn't great for you. I'm not going to just crack open a diet coke at 7 in the morning. Even though

we're on vacation, been there, done that, wrote the book, seen the movie, have done that. But like I'm not going to make that a daily habit. um where I was like going into 7-Eleven and getting a big gulp of Diet Coke. It's honestly sounds really good. Like, pause recording. Let's go. Um but I was like the other day when we were on vacation, I was like, "Let me get a Celsius. It'll wake me up." It in my mind, I think it's clear liquid, so it won't stain my teeth like Diet Coke or coffee, but it'll give me the same like boost of energy with caffeine that Diet Coke does. So, I bought one. it must have been in Utah or I ordered one or whatever. So then Jeremiah goes grocery shopping yesterday and gets like 12 of them because he thinks now it's so Jeremiah he thinks like oh because my wife has had Celsius once in her life she loves them now. Let me which bless his heart but he also got all the like

not flavors that I told him I liked. Um, so this morning when I was like getting up and getting the house ready and getting the kids ready for school, I was like, I'm not going to order a tea because I've already gained a lot of weight since vacation and like I'm trying to filter things out. I'm not going to crack open a Diet Coke. Let me crack open a Celsius. So now here I am at 9:00 a.m. cracking open the Celsius. We've already talked for about six minutes of pre-ep banter that has nothing to do with true crime because I guess I am wired. with your chatty Cathy.

Moral of the story, it is crack in a can. So, here I am. You seem to put it in a tumbler.

That's a good idea, but I don't know if it would still hit the same with like a straw cuz you know how when you have a straw, it goes faster. Like the intake is more aggressive, which is what I love for a fountain diet coke, but like

too much. It might be too much. So, let me take a sip of my kiwi strawberry Celsius. Not sponsored, but Celsius, hit up your girl.

I know. I do need a code. It's not that good. It doesn't sound good if I'm being really honest.

It's not that good. So, I don't know. We'll see where we'll see where today takes us. I like end up recording like 12 episodes today. I'm just like my eyes aren't even blinking. I'm just going um

for us. Okay. Okay. Or let's get serious, guys. Um no. Okay. So today is obviously headline highlights where we are going through all the different cases that are happening right now in the true crime world. And well, I was kind of surprised in a happy way that there weren't a ton of cases to cover this week. I was like, "Oh, maybe we're like getting our [ __ ] together as you know, the humankind." The um there are a lot of cases that have the same kind of thread weaved throughout them, which is very disturbing. But before we get into those new cases, let's do a couple updates really quick. So, a lot of you guys have been requesting that I talk about this case, and we did talk a little bit about it last week on Headline Highlights, but it's the case that is breaking out of Ohio, and it is the Teepe case with the dentist and his wife who were found brutally murdered inside their home. So,

let me give you a quick little recap on this before I get into the updates. So, right after Christmas, police responded to a home and they found Spencer and Monnique Teepe shot and killed inside. But then they realized even something more disturbing. Their two young kids were inside the house as they found their parents. But the kids, luckily, were alive. They had not been hurt. But at this point, everything pretty much shifted in the investigation because now you're not just talking about a double homicide. You're also talking about children who were there inside this family home and their parents just kind of killed and wiped out in a single night with a ton of unanswered questions left. So, pretty quickly, the investigators started looking at Mo'Nique's ex-husband, Michael McKe. He and Mo'Nique had been married from 2015 to 2017. So, although not super recent, they were trying to see if there were

any connections anywhere because this looked very deliberate. It looked very targeted. So, they of course were going to look into people who were close with the couple, right? So, from everything that had been reported, their divorce was not messy at all. It was also a very short-lived marriage. 2 years, right? 2 years almost 10 years ago now. There were no big public blowups, nothing that would on the surface immediately make you think that things could ever end up this way. But sure enough, they did make an arrest and that is who they arrested.

They say that Michael shot both Mo'Nique and her current husband Spencer and then fled the state. So, he ended up being arrested in Illinois where he was living at the time. And this was after investigators say that they had tracked him using a mix of surveillance footage, vehicle information, and digital data that placed him at the family's home and also showed his movements afterwards. But like I said, prosecutors are calling it a very targeted, very intentional act, not random, not a break-in gone wrong, something that was methodical, thought out, and planned, which it makes you wonder, not only what was the underlying motive that made him do this, but how long had that hatred and resentment been brewing? If they had been divorced for almost, you know, just shy of a decade, this is something that must have been in motion for a while, I would imagine. And there we have been doing a lot of research in this. We have

pulled so many documents, so much information. So yes, a deep dive is coming very, very soon and some of those questions will be answered. But he is now facing two counts of murder and he's also in the process of being extradited back to Ohio, which I just saw that the other day he waved his right to extradition or whatever. So that's kind of where we're at with everything. But like I said, through our research, there is a lot below the line here regarding 911 calls that were made and accusations made well before the murders, some things from the past. So, it's too much to lay out in a headline highlights episode. So, the deep dive is coming. It will be here sooner than you think, probably within the next couple of days.

So, make sure if you are watching the video version of this, take a quick second, press the red subscribe button so that you don't miss when that comes out. And if you are listening to the audio version of this episode, make sure wherever the little three dots in the corner are or whatever is going on that you are following the podcast so that you don't miss that because it has become clear that there is so much more going on here. I mean, details, timelines, context, so much that we haven't even touched on or have started to unpack yet. So, that is coming very soon. In another case update, I want to talk about the Nick Reiner case because this case took a pretty unexpected turn last week or was it was it last week?

Yeah, I guess it was end of last week. So, as you know, Nick Reiner is charged in the death of his parents and literally right before he was supposed to be back in court, his defense attorney, Alan Jackson, suddenly just stepped away from the case, which Alan Jackson, as a reminder, isn't just any attorney. It's the same guy who notoriously represented Karen Reed, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacy. He used to be I believe he used to be an LA prosecutor and then he changed over to a defense attorney. I'm pretty positive that that's his um you know I guess you call it resume. I don't even know whatever. But Allen released a statement saying quote that there were circumstances beyond our control and that he just could not continue representing Nick. However, he didn't explain what that actually means, what those circumstances are. But what made it even stranger is that even after dropping him as a client, Allan still

went out of his way to say that Nick is not guilty. Specifically, that he is not guilty under California law. But then he stopped short of giving any more detail. So, this obviously raised a lot of eyebrows, right? First and foremost, why is he no longer representing him? Which my gut tells me it's the money. I'm sure the siblings aren't on board with paying for this highric fancy attorney. Obviously, we know Nick doesn't have a ton of money to his name either, so that's why the public defender is now representing him. But also, Alan Jackson's very carefully curated choice of words of him not being guilty under California law when we also saw outside of the courthouse a couple of weeks ago when he said, "Don't jump to conclusions. There's a lot more to this." We don't know where this is going to go. We have heard of the rumors that Nick had suffered from schizophrenia and different mental health disorders and

things like that. I think that they are going to say that he was clinically and legally insane at the time of these murders. That's just my guess. I'm not an attorney. I'm not a doctor, but I think that that's what they are going to say and what they're going to try to prove that he wasn't in his right mind at the time of these murders. So that under California law, he cannot be held responsible and that he is not guilty of murder. So again, very carefully chosen words and I could be completely freaking wrong here, but that's where I'm going with this. That's what I am thinking. So like I said, there's been a lot of speculation that this whole thing just came down to money and that that's why Ellen Jackson is no longer representing him. They think that maybe the family has cut any sort of financial support from Nick and, you know, that there's other things at play behind the scenes.

But we also know that Alan Jackson is definitely not, you know, what you would call budget friendly in terms of his cost. He is a very high-priced attorney. So I think that all of that really does align. So because of the last minute switch, as I mentioned, Nick is now being represented by the LA County Public Defenders Office and his arraignment has been pushed back to February to give his new defense team time to get up to speed, gather all the discovery, the evidence, and you know, figure out their strategy. So we'll see what happens. We will see what the family says, if it ends up being confirmed that this all does come down to, you know, financial support and what the defense, the new defense is going to now argue for Nick. But speaking of Alan Jackson, I don't know if any of you listening have watched yet, and I don't know, Amy, if you have watched, over the weekend, a new Lifetime movie came out

about Karen Reed, and it has my girl Katie Cassidy in it. She stars as Karen Reed.

Other homework, too. There's so many doctors. Oh my god. Well, His and Hers isn't. Yeah. Is is fiction, but it's very good. I just finished it last night. Um, yeah. So, the new Lifetime movie. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I have seen reaction clips out there and where like Aiden Turtle Boy, the you know, the guy who like really took the story and gave it a lot of um legs. He's even featured in it. Not himself, but somebody like an actor portrays him like because he had such a big role of in all of this. So, I'm interested to watch it and see what kind of perspective they give. And I love Katie Cassidy. I think she's great. I never would have thought of her as being somebody to play Karen.

No, but now I can kind of see it now that you said that. And they did great with like the makeup and the wig and all of that. She it So, I don't know. Like I'm a sucker for Lifetime. I love Lifetime movies. Honestly, I've been a sucker since I was like too young to be watch like 20 years old and I would just watch LMN, the Lifetime Movie Network on repeat and I saw every Lifetime movie that had ever aired. So maybe I need to get back to my roots and like watch more Lifetime.

Sound I mean I'm down to watch it. Maybe that is we should have an office watch party

at lunch. Good idea, Elizabeth. No, I'm just kidding. Um okay, so yeah, we'll see what goes on with that. But those are the updates. Now, as I had said, the cases, the new cases that Amy and I are going to be sharing with you today, it's interesting because while there weren't as many to choose from, which is very, you know, happy, you know, like that makes me feel good that, okay, great. There's not so much true crime out there right now. Maybe we're getting our [ __ ] together finally as like a nation, which we're obviously not. But um they all have like the same undercurrent and it's like we like all true crime usually does but like

family mother stepfather house of horrors skeletons like weird stuff. So I know you found this first one so why don't and I don't even know much about it so why don't you break it down for us.

Okay. Yeah. And today's I know we often say we have more questions than answers after researching some of these. And this one is similar only because I could kind of put myself at the age of this young girl and I have some questions. So I'm interested to hear what you guys think. So, this next one comes out of Mobile, Alabama, and it's just really heartbreaking to hear because it involves a 14-year-old girl who was left behind by her mother and stepfather and forced to survive on her own for almost a year inside of a home that was filled with filth and animals and just super poor living conditions. And the whole time she was left alone, her mother and stepfather were actually working in a completely different state. According to investigators, this came to light when the teenager was seen stumbling down the road outside of a Dollar General store in Mobile County. Employees noticed she appeared disoriented and unwell. And

then they ended up contacting the authorities. And when the deputies arrived, the girl was reportedly complaining of dizziness and had a lot of stomach pain. And so eventually she was taken to the hospital for evaluation. The welfare check would ultimately expose what law enforcement says was a year-long abandonment. When deputies followed up at the home where the girl said she had lived, what they found was very disturbing. Authorities say the mobile home was in extremely unsanitary condition. And you can see in the photos that the floors were covered in dog feces, urine, trash was piled throughout the entire residence. And there was even an infestation of roaches and bugs. And inside the home, there were seven dogs. and not just seven dogs, but one that was found dead inside a closet. And animal control ended up removing all of the dogs that were found still alive inside the home. The girl

had told investigators that she had been living completely alone since February 2024, shortly after she turned 14. According to police, her mother and stepfather had moved out of the state, leaving her behind with the dogs, and she had absolutely no adult supervision. worker says she's dialed for help after seeing the girl stumbling outside and it quickly turned into a child investigation. Mobile County deputies responded to the Dollar General on Jarrett Road January 4th after worker Jessica Smitherman called saying a young girl was staggering. Her stomach hurt and she kept passing out.

Looked like she had not had a bath in months. She had dog hair all over her clothes. She smelled very bad. So I knew she needed some kind of help. The 14-year-old was taken to the hospital where investigators learned she had been living alone in a mobile home since around her birthday last February.

The condition of of the mobile home was just deplorable and and not something that any human or even any animal should be living in.

Sheriff Paul Bur says deputies found urine, feces, trash, and seven dogs on the property. one dead inside a closet.

And that's where the timeline becomes a little more alarming because investigators say the girl reported that her last in-person contact with her mother and stepfather was around Halloween 2025, so months ago. Since then, she's only communicated with them through Snapchat messages. The girl said her mother would occasionally arrange food deliveries such as Walmart or Door Dash, but otherwise she was left to fend for herself, including caring for all of those animals inside that disgusting, filthy home. And inside the home, deputies also reportedly found a handwritten note, which this is absolutely heartbreaking, that painted a painful picture of what life looked like for this poor child. The note was titled, "How many times mom tells me that she can't pick me up exclamation mark and it had a total of 87 tally marks, which investigators believe she should have repeated promises from the mother that were just never kept." The

girl's mother has been identified as Marcel Lynn Partila and her stepfather as Eugene Vadrono. According to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office, the couple had been living and working in Pensacola, Florida, roughly about an hour away while the girl was left alone in Alabama. When questioned, the mother claimed she left her daughter behind because the girl didn't want to move without her animals, which she had referred to as service animals. However, authorities said that it was unclear whether the dogs were legitimate service animals. Regardless, they emphasize that a minor can't legally be left alone in those conditions. Both adults were arrested and charged with and multiple counts of animal cruelty. They were booked into the county metro jail and as of most recent reports, the investigation still remains active and additional charges have not been ruled out. Authorities have said what

ultimately saved this girl's life was that the concerned employee chose not to turn a blind eye and actually made the call to authorities and otherwise this poor girl may have continued living in these awful living conditions. And so that really saved her. And we always say if you see something, say something. As with most cases involving minors, many details have not yet been released. What we know right now is just based on law enforcement and the court filings. But even at this early stage, the facts laid out by investigators raise serious questions about how a child could be left alone for this long and how so many of these warning signs left unnoticed.

And that's kind of where my questions came in because I was thinking back to being 14 and a lot of my friends were left alone, you know, while their their parents are at work or sometimes like even on a vacation if they had an older sibling. And while I certainly couldn't have like sustained caring for myself or possibly all these animals, I think I would have been able to like keep things a little more sanitary or at least known to call for help. Unless she was raised in those conditions.

That's kind of what I was and maybe she didn't Yeah, maybe she didn't know any better. And I know they were only an hour away even though technically it's a different state. But I wonder were they I know they they had said that they were sending food deliveries here and there. Were they also giving her money because how was she paying for the surviving dogs food? I would imagine they probably never were groomed and maybe that was also part of the bugs and the fleas and things like that. But was she not in school? Was she going to school? Was she going to school dirty? Why did nobody call? If she didn't go to school, why weren't those phone calls made? Like,

why communication primarily through social media? Is it the parents were doing something for work that like did they not want to be tracked because they knew they shouldn't have left their daughter alone or because what they were doing?

Why? Yeah. Why communicate through Snapchat? And like I'm sorry, months. So, why the long period of time without any communication at all? Right. It seems like they were kind of just I mean in my opinion over being parents. Like they were like fend for yourself. And then for them to for the mom to say well she didn't want to leave behind her animals. I don't care. You are the parent. Like you reel it in.

But I was wondering is that also motivation of maybe why the girl didn't call because maybe she really did have an attachment to the animals and knew if

maybe she had to go that she would be leaving them. And so I feel like there's a lot more questions. That's why I was asking. I'm curious to know what everyone thinks because feel like there's a lot

there's Yeah. And because you're right, because she's a minor, it's not all going to be released right now. It'll come out in like I hate this expression in drips and drabs, but I know I hate that expression, but like it'll slowly start coming out, but it seems to me like I don't know. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it seems like deadbeat parents. They left her to go do their own thing, work far away, which if it's an hour away, also commute. Why do you need to live in another state? Like why do you leave your daughter make the hour drive every day if you're working there?

It Yeah. A lot of questions. Was she in school? I don't know. It's It's interesting.

I know because I feel like often times you see people I mean I'm sure her being a minor was

and you know I like I'm thinking there's a case what is her name? Lacy Fletcher. I might be getting it confused with another case but there was a similar house of horrors a couple of years ago. I think it was Lacy Fletcher. I'm not entirely sure. I know everybody's probably screaming right now in their car. It's this Annie, it's this. But where their child was special needs and that's why they left her because they didn't want to take care of her. Not saying that this child was. However, if there were feces, urine, things like that. Either she grew up in those conditions and didn't know any better.

Or maybe there was some sort of element there and that's why she also needed service animals or things like that. And maybe that's why things got so out of control or unruly. I don't know.

I don't know. But when you look at those photos and you It's just unbelievable that someone would know that their child is living in that condition cuz you know as a parent what your kids are capable of doing.

Absolutely. For themselves and regardless that's far far far too long. I feel bad denying Emmy Lou her third pack of chocolate muffins. Like

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Or you can also find dime on Amazon and Ulta. Your winter skin will thank you. Again, that is dimebeauty.com codeodcast 20. Okay, so this next case kind of a common thread, but I have been getting so many DMs, comments, story forwards, tags, like you name it about this case. And honestly, it's one of those stories where the more you learn about it, the harder it is to like wrap your head around how this even not only happened, but how it went on for so long. So, this involves a man named Jonathan Gerlatch, 34 years old, from Pennsylvania, and he is now accused of carrying out what authorities are calling one of the most disturbing and extensive grave robbing operations that they have ever seen. And what's wild is this case didn't just start with some like big dramatic moment. It actually started very quietly, almost invisibly. So, police had been looking into repeated grave burglaries at Mount Mariah Cemetery,

which is a massive historic cemetery just outside of Philadelphia. Vaults were being forced open, mausoleiums were damaged, and in some cases, it even appeared that human remains were going missing. And at first, it wasn't clear at all who was responsible here. But after more than two dozen breakins, the investigators decided to step up surveillance to figure out what the hell was really going on here. They wanted to start watching who was coming and going from this cemetery. And that is when everything changed. During that surveillance, police noted a vehicle that had been parked nearby. And when they went to go take a closer look, they saw something in the back seat that immediately made it clear that this wasn't just vandalism or someone, you know, being in the cemetery after hours.

There were human remains inside this car. According to prosecutors, that single moment tied the entire string of grave burglaries to one single person, 34year-old Jonathan. So on January 6th, 2026, police stopped Jonathan as he was walking back toward that same vehicle. This time he was carrying a crowbar and this burlap bag. And inside that bag, authorities say that there were mummified remains of two small children along with multiple skulls and other bones. So once he was taken into custody, the investigators then executed search warrants on his home and also a nearby storage unit that was in his name. And what they found there is what law enforcement has described as one of the most disturbing scenes they have ever encountered. In Jonathan's basement and his storage unit, authorities say that they uncovered more than 100 sets of human remains. I'm talking skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet,

decomposing torsos, some still even wearing jewelry on their body, and in at least one case, a pacemaker was still embedded inside the body. Uh John Paul with 6ABC. Can you tell us a little bit more about um when you found these skeletons in the house, where were they? What condition were they in? What was he doing with them?

So John, a lot remains to be determined at this point. They were in the basement predominantly, although as you can imagine with 100 remains, it was not as though they were in an isolated area. Um we don't know exactly what he was doing with them. Time will tell. They were in various states. understand some of these are 200 years old.

The district attorney later said that walking into that home felt like stepping into a horror movie except this was obviously real life. It reminds me of that movie too, House of Thousand Corpses. I think it's a Rob Zombie movie. It's also who does what's the other one? I know you guys are screaming it. I'm going to need to Google it after this. But they are like two of my favorite movies. Um has like Rob Zombie, his wife, and like the parents. It's so creepy and gross, but like yeah, this is real life. So, at this point, investigators realized they weren't dealing with just some one-off crime.

They were dealing with something very systematic, something planned, ongoing. Police believe that many of these remains came from the Mount Mariah Cemetery, which also dates back all of the way to 1855. And this cemetery contains more than 150,000 burials. The cemetery has struggled with neglect and security issues for years, which makes it, of course, very vulnerable. And this is something that investigators believe Jonathan really took advantage of. So you would think that, okay, this is disturbing enough, right? What a freak?

Why on earth was he doing this? Like is he some just like weird pervat obsessor? What's going on? But as they kept digging into this, things then got even darker because court documents suggest that Jonathan may not have been keeping all of these remains for himself. Investigators actually uncovered digital evidence that indicated that some of these bones may have been sold or traded online. Because as we know, there is a huge market for weird ass on the internet. And not only people trading, you know, organs or this or that, but people who want to buy actual human remains or trade them. And people online have since pointed to different posts in like oddity collector groups and images allegedly shared on social media that are images believed to show human remains taken from disturbed graves. And like I said, prosecutors have confirmed that some of the remains that were recovered are believed to

belong to children, which kind of adds this whole other sick and twisted layer, right? Even if there is a market for people who want to buy human remains because they, you know, are fascinated or they're just freaks of nature, they want children's remains. That is so sick and twisted. Jonathan has admitted to breaking into dozens of graves, but authorities say that the sheer volume of remains that were found points to one of the most extensive grave robbing cases that they have ever seen. So, he is now facing hundreds of criminal charges, including more than 100 counts related to of a corpse along with theft, burglary, desecration, and even more.

He's being held on a $1 million bail, and his preliminary hearing is scheduled for later this month.

Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Tanner Rouse. I'm the district attorney of Delaware County, and we are here today because of the arrest of 34year-old Jonathan Gerlock of Epherta, Pennsylvania. Uh over the course of the last several weeks, detectives from Yayen Burrow as well as Delaware County C became aware that from November of 2025 up until two days ago, January 2026, Mount Mariah Cemetery had been burglarized by at that point an unknown individual. 26 separate mausoleiums and or underground burial sites had been torn into and for lack of better word desecrated.

Investigation took place. Yayen deserves a hell of a lot of credit on this for doing good old fashioned police work going through LPRs, tracking physical evidence, piecing together a suspect, cooperating with CD. We developed that suspect. We laid in weight and we eventually watched and caught Mr. Gerlock as he desecrated yet another monument as recently as two days ago. He was taken into custody. Search warrants were executed at his home in Africa where over 100 human skeletons were recovered. And that's in part at this point we are still trying to figure out how many of those are complete and what exactly we are looking at. A separate storage locker was found to be in Mr.

Gerlock's possession. That also was in Ephraa. We found there eight more human remains. Um, very simply, detectives have recovered an awful lot of bones at this point, and we are still trying to piece together who they are, where they are from, and how many we are looking at, and it's going to be quite some time before we have a final answer. Um, he is now arrested. Bail has been set at a million dollars cash by Judge Williams. He is in on 26 counts of burglary, criminal trespass, and a host of other offenses. is Kelly Wilson, who's handling our media affairs, is going to pass out a complaint that you guys have the complete list of charges at your disposal.

Very simply, detectives walked into a horror movie come to life the other night. Guys, this is an unbelievable scene that no one involved from myself to the detectives to the medical examiners that are now trying to piece together what they are looking at. Quite literally, none of them have ever seen anything like this before. But what makes this case so beyond unsettling isn't just the number of charges or how graphic the details are, but it's the questions that it raises because how many families would go and visit their loved ones without knowing that these graves have already been violated and that their loved one wasn't even in there anymore? How long had this been happening before anybody noticed? And why would somebody collect and possibly sell human remains in the first place? I know there's a market for everything. as I said, but like come on. So, we're still uncovering a lot of new details as

this case develops and there is so much going on here that has not been reported so far. So, let me know if you want the deep dive because I will do the leg work and get the answers.

I have a couple questions. Oh, great. Hit me. Okay. Number one, when you say there's a market, which I'm obviously not surprised there's a market for everything for bones and things like that, is that a black market or can you legally buy bones? Obviously, not that were dug up illegally, but like if you had possession of bones, are you able to sell them?

Maybe for like a paleontologist. I don't know. For educational purposes or research or whatever just have like people are fascinated with taxiderermy like

could you was my first question. Secondly, if someone passes away in your family or whatever and you are the person who decides what happens with are you allowed to keep a body? Like could you preserve the bones yourself? I'm just thinking

you probably could, but like not that you'd ever want to. I'm just curious. There's a market. So, I'm just thinking

I'm taking you off my estate planning right now. I'm just thinking this guy is selling bones. Obviously, he's got some fetish thing probably going

Well, yeah, it's the money. I'm sure he's probably making money selling it. Yeah, but if there's this market, where do people normally get these bones? My question

probably like the black market is my guess. All illegally sourced or do people sometimes not bury or cremate someone and they just have possession bones?

I hope nobody listening has the answer. Okay. Because I don't like any of that. I It's

curious because you mean you donate things to science and I don't know. No, I'm just

I the DMV you put the donor sticker of like I'll donate my organs. And I know that there's been rumors forever that like if you have that sticker, they won't save your life. Yeah. Which is I don't No, I don't either. But like there's no sticker saying take my bones and sell them on the black market. But there's

the executive of your I want my I want to be cremated. No bones for you. Yeah. No, but there is a weird market for stuff like this. I did a CA I covered a case maybe six months ago and I don't know if you remember this where there was a market where people were um I can't uh not circumcising what's the word I'm looking for what's the word where you

castration yes thank you I was having where they c like self-castration self-castration

yes and also where you would hire somebody to come and castrate you like weird fetishes and weird groups on the internet

yeah or you keep it as a trophy. You sell it legally. I don't know. I don't want to talk about this anymore. Okay. Like I'm tapping out. The Celsius isn't hitting enough for this conversation right now.

Um gosh. Okay. So, that's what we've got for headline highlights today. What a heavy one. But like I said, don't forget, subscribe, follow if you haven't already because the deep dive into the Teepe family is coming. And I want to make sure you don't miss that because so many of you guys have been messaging me about it. And look, if you want the deep dive into the house of a hundred corpses, I'll call it, I will do it for you because I love you, but I really hope you guys don't request it secretly. So, that's what we've got for today. Um, what else I was going to say? Oh, on Tuesday, we put out the episode of Aaron Caffy. If you're not familiar with that episode or that case, she is a teen who orchestrated her entire family's murder.

It's pretty unbelievable. So, that's on the Tend to Life feed. You It's all housed on the same YouTube channel, but for my podcast listeners, just a friendly reminder, we have two podcasts, Serlessly, and Tend to Life. So, go check out that new episodes every Tuesday. And then yeah, I'll be back with you guys Monday with an all new case or I think maybe actually tomorrow with a bonus episode. If you are if you listen on Apple, if you sign up for Annie Eliss Plus, you get access to about a hundred bonus episodes right now, bonus cases, and we do a new one every other Friday. So they're exclusive on Apple and on Patreon. So you can do that either on Apple Podcast app or patreon.com/anie.

Anything else? I think that you covered it. That was a mouthful. Okay, until the next one, be nice. Don't kill people. Don't sell any bones. Don't rob any graves. And

see something, say something. If you see something, say something. That's a great one. And just don't be a freak. Should that be a new motto? Like,

don't be a freak. That's it. Okay. Bye.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates"?

Annie Elise (Host), Amy Colette (Guest), Marcel Lynn Partila (Guest), Eugene Vadrono (Guest), Jonathan Gerlatch (Guest), Alan Jackson (Guest), Tanner Rouse (Guest).

What is "100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates" about?

The content discusses a series of shocking crime stories, including the discovery of over 100 skeletons in a man's home in Alabama, and ongoing investigations into alleged neglect highlighted by a disturbing incident involving a girl found abandoned on the road. Additionally, it covers personal updates from the hosts, including their recent absences and technical issues affecting audio quality.

What is mentioned in this Annie Elise episode?

6 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Mount Mariah Cemetery, Monnique Teepe, Marcel Lynn Partila, Eugene Vadrono, Jonathan Gerlatch, Spencer Teepe. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "100+ Skeletons Found in Man’s Home, Alabama House of Horrors & Nick Reiner Updates"?

The episode runs 44 min; the transcript is about 8,400 words in 102 timestamped sections.

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