How and where mass murderers are buried, and why the body of a shooter from Texas could not be given to the earth for a month

The body of Uvalde, Texas shooter Salvador Ramos languished in the mortuary for nearly a month after the incident because local funeral homes refused to accept him. Where do the bodies of mass murderers go and how are they buried? Writes about it Independent.

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Although the killer's autopsy was carried out just three days after the shootingOn May 27, another three and a half weeks elapsed before his remains were finally cremated.

Coroner Uvalde Eulalio Diaz Jr. said the delay was both due to the reluctance of local businesses to have anything to do with the killer's remains, as well as disagreements within the Ramos family.

Diaz said two of Uvalde's funeral homes, Hillcrest Memorial and Rushing-Estes-Knowles, refused to accept the mass murderer's body.

“I had to store it for three weeks. While the funeral of the victims was going on, I was still thinking what to do with it. It was a busy time,” the coroner said.

Taylor Michelle Massey, Rushing-Estes-Knowles funeral director, confirmed that the agency refused to provide services to Ramos out of respect for the families of the victims he killed.

Meanwhile, Díaz said the Ramos family was also arguing among themselves over what to do with the remains of the 18-year-old.

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Ramos lived with his grandparents. On the morning of the attack, he shot his 66-year-old grandmother Celia Martinez Gonzalez.

His grandmother survived the shooting but spent several weeks in the hospital.

In the end, Ramos's remains were sent 150 miles (241 km) to the mortuary in Lockhart before a funeral home 40 miles (64 km) from Uvalde in Crystal City did agree to organize his funeral.

The mass shooter was then cremated even further away from the city he terrorized at the Corona Cremation Center in San Antonio, more than 80 miles (128 km) from Uvalde.

Where mass murderers are buried

Come to think of it, the killer's grave has an eerie notoriety as a place where protesters or even "parishioners" congregate. WKYC.

For example, Omar Mateen, the perpetrator who killed 49 and injured 53 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, is buried in an unmarked grave in northwest Miami. And those whose loved ones are buried in a Muslim cemetery in South Florida are unhappy with this.

The man whose wife is buried in this cemetery "doesn't want him to be here." Others expressed similar sentiments.

Cities usually don't want to become the resting place of a person with such a dark past, so burials are kept secret or even secret to reduce tensions.

Will one solution be to cremate their bodies and return them to their families? But this is also a moot point.

Ted Bundy, who was convicted of 3 murders in Florida and confessed to 30 more murders in seven states between 1974 and 1978, was executed by electric chair in 1989 at the age of 42. He attacked and killed young women and girls in the 1970s.

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Bundy's remains were cremated in Gainesville, Florida, and at his request, his ashes were scattered at an "unspecified location" in the Cascade Range, Washington state.

Jeffrey Dahmer raped, killed and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991. Caught in 1991, he was convicted and sentenced to 15 life terms in prison. A cellmate beat him to death on November 28, 1994.

Dahmer's brain was kept in formaldehyde while his divorced parents argued over what to do with it. In the end, his brain and body were cremated and divided between them.

Remember the tragedy at Columbine High? In 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They killed 12 classmates, as well as a teacher, and injured 26 people, then committed suicide.

According to Reverend Don Markshausen, Klebold's family had him cremated, and Markshausen said that Klebold could not be placed in a public cemetery because people would desecrate his grave. Harris's family has never publicly disclosed his resting place.

Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in 2001 for killing 168 people in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh's body was taken to a local funeral home, where he was cremated and the ashes turned over to one of his lawyers.

One of the most notorious killers was Lee Harvey Oswald. The assassin of John F. Kennedy was shot and killed at a Dallas police station two days after the presidential assassination on November 22, 1963.

Oswald was never brought to trial. His body was exhumed in 1981 from a cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas, to dispel theories that Oswald's body was not actually there. Authorities used dental records to conclude that the remains did indeed belong to the man who shot the president.

His body was then reburied at Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery in Fort Worth.

And although it all sounds a little strange, not everyone will agree that a mass murderer should be buried next to their relatives.

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