Man Caught On Camera Urinating On Ex-Wife’s Grave ‘Almost Every Morning'

A man has been arrested after being caught on camera urinating on his ex-wife's grave almost every day in Orangetown, New York at the Tappan Reformed Church cemetery, a centuries-old burial ground on the border between New Jersey and New York.

Michael Andrew Murphy, the son of the deceased woman Linda Torello, who died of cancer in 2017, reportedly frequently noticed deli bags full of feces placed near the grave of his mother. Following this, he contacted the police and obtained permission from a cemetery manager to place cameras on the grounds to try to obtain footage of the act, Miami Herald reported.

When Murphy and his sister later checked the camera footage, they caught a man identified by the family as Dean Eichler, 68, who was briefly married to Torello in the 1970s, in the act.

However, since the footage was too blurry and grainy to take to the authorities, Murphy and his sister got up at 5 a.m. one day last week and drove to the cemetery. Murphy then set up his smartphone on a nearby headstone to take better photos. He then hid behind a small shed and waited.

The video and the pictures that Murphy and his sister captured indicated that the man drove to the cemetery almost every morning between 6:14 a.m. and 6:18 a.m. with his current wife. He would proceed to go out of his car, walk to Torello’s grave, and pee on it, New York Post reported.

“I can’t get my wife to go out to dinner but this guy gets his wife to go along with him to desecrate my mom’s remains every morning!” Murphy said.

“I felt like getting out and killing him,” he added.

Dean Eichler was briefly married to Torello back in the 1970s. He left when Torello got pregnant, claiming that the child was not his. However, DNA testing confirmed that the child was his biological daughter. Earlier this year, he reportedly ran into his biological daughter and said he wished she were dead and cursed her and her mother.

“He could have been peeing out there for five years and we wouldn’t have known it,” Murphy said. “We only found out because of the feces.”

Following the incident, a public urination charge was filed against the man by the Orangetown Police Department on Sept. 18. Police later tracked the 68-year-old man to Bergenfield, New Jersey, and arrested him. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.