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Do you remember me posting in the prayer room about a little girl dying 2 years ago?
The dad has been having trouble with someone messing with her grave and headstone.:
Decatur Herald & Review
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DECATUR - With a surveillance camera and patience, a 27-year-old man tracked and caught the 60-year-old woman police arrested for allegedly vandalizing his daughter's grave.
Decatur police Sgt. Steve Chabak said police were sent to the 2900 block of North Edward Street shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday. They met the man, who explained the story of how he came to summon them to that address.
The man told police that he had a daughter who had died and is buried at Graceland/Fairlawn Cemetery. Since April, he said he has noticed multiple incidents of damage at the gravesite: broken solar lights, scratches on the headstone, damage to a small flag he had erected on the plot.
"It made him mad," Chabak said, so the man decided to find out who was behind the vandalism.
He used a trail camera, a type of camera that hunters use in the forest to identify wildlife, and set it up facing his daughter's plot.
On Tuesday evening, the man checked what the camera had recorded. He saw footage of a woman getting out of a vehicle, walking a dog around the cemetery and jumping on the solar lights near his daughter's grave.
The man did not know who the woman was or why she would do this.
On Wednesday evening, the man waited near the cemetery and watched as the same vehicle pulled up. A man was driving, and the same woman was a passenger.
As the vehicle drove away, the man obtained its license plate number and followed it to the North Edward Street address. He called police and showed them the video footage, and they arrested the woman.
She did not offer a motive for the damage. It's not clear whether she was responsible for vandalism over the past few months.
"(The man) was thinking it had to be somebody that maybe didn't like him or the child's mother ... but this is just a total stranger, or at least it looks like it at this point," Chabak said
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WAND_TV:
DECATUR- When a grave at Graceland Fairlawn cemetery was repeatedly vandalized, a Decatur man set up a camera to find out who was behind the damage.
After catching a woman on camera kicking lights near his daughter's grave, Jason McCoy decided to come to the cemetery to catch the vandal in the act.
The next night, the vandal did the same thing, and he took down her license plate number.
Police arrested 61 year old Joyce Gifford and gave her a notice to appear. Police also found Gifford's yard covered in plastic cemetery flowers.
McCoy's daughter Madison died two years ago from cancer. she was five.
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Do you remember me posting in the prayer room about a little girl dying 2 years ago?
The dad has been having trouble with someone messing with her grave and headstone.:
Decatur Herald & Review
"""""
DECATUR - With a surveillance camera and patience, a 27-year-old man tracked and caught the 60-year-old woman police arrested for allegedly vandalizing his daughter's grave.
Decatur police Sgt. Steve Chabak said police were sent to the 2900 block of North Edward Street shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday. They met the man, who explained the story of how he came to summon them to that address.
The man told police that he had a daughter who had died and is buried at Graceland/Fairlawn Cemetery. Since April, he said he has noticed multiple incidents of damage at the gravesite: broken solar lights, scratches on the headstone, damage to a small flag he had erected on the plot.
"It made him mad," Chabak said, so the man decided to find out who was behind the vandalism.
He used a trail camera, a type of camera that hunters use in the forest to identify wildlife, and set it up facing his daughter's plot.
On Tuesday evening, the man checked what the camera had recorded. He saw footage of a woman getting out of a vehicle, walking a dog around the cemetery and jumping on the solar lights near his daughter's grave.
The man did not know who the woman was or why she would do this.
On Wednesday evening, the man waited near the cemetery and watched as the same vehicle pulled up. A man was driving, and the same woman was a passenger.
As the vehicle drove away, the man obtained its license plate number and followed it to the North Edward Street address. He called police and showed them the video footage, and they arrested the woman.
She did not offer a motive for the damage. It's not clear whether she was responsible for vandalism over the past few months.
"(The man) was thinking it had to be somebody that maybe didn't like him or the child's mother ... but this is just a total stranger, or at least it looks like it at this point," Chabak said
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WAND_TV:
DECATUR- When a grave at Graceland Fairlawn cemetery was repeatedly vandalized, a Decatur man set up a camera to find out who was behind the damage.
After catching a woman on camera kicking lights near his daughter's grave, Jason McCoy decided to come to the cemetery to catch the vandal in the act.
The next night, the vandal did the same thing, and he took down her license plate number.
Police arrested 61 year old Joyce Gifford and gave her a notice to appear. Police also found Gifford's yard covered in plastic cemetery flowers.
McCoy's daughter Madison died two years ago from cancer. she was five.
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