Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BEDFORD, Pa., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Pennsylvania said a man accused of murdering his wife allegedly tried to reserve the cemetery plot next to her for himself. John Lewis Gerholt Sr., 39, who has been in Bedford County Jail without bail on a first degree murder charge since the Nov. 9, 2008, shooting death of his wife, allegedly used falsified documents to reserve the burial plot next to his late wife in a Broad Top, Pa., area cemetery, The (Johnstown, Pa.) Tribune-Democrat reported Tuesday. Advertisement Bedford County District Attorney William Higgins said Gerholt is now facing charges of forgery, theft and theft by deception. "This is an ongoing attempt for him to continue to torture this woman's family," Higgins said. "Even after her death, he will not leave her alone." Gerholt allegedly drove to a McDonald's where his wife, Karen Gerholt, 24, was employed in 2008 and shot her in the parking lot with a shotgun. Gerholt, who had been ordered not to contact his wife at the time of the incident, claims the gun went off by accident and he had not intended to harm anyone.
