ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News first told you about a widow who said a cemetery moved her husband’s headstone and she’s not sure where his body actually is.
Last month - our questions sparked the state to launch an investigation and new tonight-- the state has spoken to the family.
Channel 2′s Veronica Griffin was at the Greenwood Cemetery in Southwest Atlanta.
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The state’s investigator tells Griffin the information they received after now interviewing the family was more than enough for them to move forward.
“I’m very glad they have gotten involved,” Vera Blount said.
Blount is feeling hopeful now that state’s cemetery division is looking into where her late husband’s body is buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
“It’s sad to because it’s coming into the holidays, which was when my husband was buried, in November 2019. We been coming all this time to that area there,” Blount said.
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Up until a few months ago the family spent the better part of two years visiting Edson Blount Jr near a patch of dirt is where is headstone use to be.
“They moved down closer to the street area which I know we weren’t there during the internment. I just want to get to the bottom of it,” Blount said.
The Blount family tells Griffin they have been visiting this area for more than 2 years. They were told the headstone needed to be moved.
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And that has the state’s cemetery division asking questions. They interviewed Blount and her daughter.
“They wanted to know from being to end the whole situation and all. They sounded very supportive,” Blount said.
“They just wanted to know about the owner of the cemetery and what kind of questions he was asking – and about probing the gravesite. It’s just, it’s a lot,” daughter, Kimberly Jenkins said.
The family wants answers. Mainly they need to know where he’s buried.
“I’ve got to get some justice for him and feel like we’re doing right by him,” Blount said.
Channel 2 has reached out to the cemetery again but did not hear back.
Investigators tell Griffin they requested records from the cemetery and if they don’t get them they will send a subpoena next.
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