A Springfield mother is fed up with thieves stealing from her daughter’s grave, and after not finding help from a local cemetery, she’s taking matters into her own hands.
“The first year! 2006. Her first Christmas. They took it all! Every last thing, I mean, it was heartbreaking to come out here and seeing what we put out there for our loved one, our daughter, that was murdered,” Pyles said.
Pyles daughter, Bobbie Joe, was murdered in May of 2006 and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Springfield.
Pyles said after years of having items taken from her daughter’s grave she now photographs and inscribes her daughter’s name on everything she brings to the grave site.
"I think the cemetery should put up cameras, and it would save a lot of heartache from loved ones. I'm not the only one,” Pyles said.
Newscenter 7’s Natalie Jovonovich spoke with Linda Pyles and explains how she is thwarting the thieves who regularly take mementos she leaves for her daughter.