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Odd Gravestone Baffles Inkster Cops / Vanishing Gravestone Back at Last

Detroit Free Press , September 24, 1958 We live such strange lives, especially myself, and for some the weirdness continues after death. For Bertha Heiden it was likely less anomalous than our hectic lifestyles but when death came to her she found a pleasant resting spot in semi-seclusion on a hill at Bell Branch Cemetery in Redford, Michigan overlooking the future dead in the back lots of the graveyard. Detroit Free Press , September 25, 1958 Some twenty years after she was laid to rest in 1930 a thrill-seeker or deviant robbed her stone from its perch ing spot off Telegraph Road and absconded with it. In the spring of 1958, 7 years after the heist, the stone suddenly appeared at the Inkster Police Station, nearly 10 miles away. There it sat leaning against a cell block wall for half a year before somebody decided to find out where it came from. A newspaper article in the Detroit Free Press solved the matter within a day when Heiden's granddaughter, Geraldine Watson of 26305 F...