Where are the bodies? Cemetery worker allegedly pocketed burial money for years

KALAMAZOO, MI — Investigators have sifted through years of records, looking for clues about unmarked and unrecorded graves.

It’s a graveyard mystery-turned-criminal case in Kalamazoo.

Former Mt. Olivet Cemetery employee Shaun Albertson has been charged with embezzlement, as police allege he pocketed the money he collected for burials instead of giving it to the graveyard where he worked for over two decades.

It raises a bone-chilling question: Where are the bodies and how many families are involved?

A police report alleges multiple instances.

The then-CFO of the Kalamazoo Catholic Diocese, Timothy Meeker, estimated Shaun Albertson allegedly stole over $388,000 in his over 20 years with the cemetery, according to a police report MLive/Kalamazoo Gazette obtained through a Freedom of Inf