Pennsylvania man faces nearly 500 charges after police discovered over 100 human skeletal remains in his car, home, and storage unit

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More than 100 human skulls and remains belonging to infants have been discovered inside the home of a man accused of desecrating mausoleums and gravesites.

Jonathan Gerlach, 34, faces more than 500 charges relating to the alleged offending, which allegedly began around Halloween in what authorities have described as a 'horror movie come to life'.

The Pennsylvania local allegedly had collected skulls, long bones, mummified feet and decomposing torsos, storing them in his basement and a separate storage locker, Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said.

'Very simply, detectives have recovered an awful lot of bones at this point, and we are still trying to piece together who they are, where they are from, and how many we are looking at,' Rouse said.

'Detectives walked into a horror movie come to life the other night. This is an unbelievable scene.

'Understand, some of these are 200 years old. Some obviously much newer... It's going to be quite some time before we have a final answer.'

Some of the remains were hundreds of years old, Rouse said, while others belonged to infants believed to have been just months old when they died.

At least one of the corpses was found with a pacemaker, authorities added

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