They took their belongings, their horses and cows; some even went to the local cemetery, dug up the remains of their loved ones, and took them along to be reburied in Mexico in "Nuevo" Laredo.
The vast cemetery, dug deep into soft tufo stone, intersects with Neapolitan traditions of religion, folklore and pagan ritual – and is indicative of the many strata of the city's history.
Gary Stickel, an archeologist for the Gabrieleno Indians, went so far as to call the cemetery dig "the worst assault on cultural resources in the history of this city". Molina knows now that the problems were preventable.
Gein was a sick bastard who liked going to the cemetery and digging up recently interred bodies of women whom he thought looked like his mother.
He had to go to the cemetery and dig a grave.
"They wanted to make sure we understood that there was no need to visit the cemetery or dig any deeper into the situation".
In one scene the boy's parents are watching a horror movie on TV as he creeps back from the pet cemetery having dug up his dead pup.
But on Sunday morning, workers from the Crabiel Parkwest Funeral Chapel, who came to the cemetery to dig a grave for a later burial, found hundreds of gravestones overturned like dominoes.
Last Monday, on the edges of a crowded Kabul cemetery, friends dug a grave for Ahmad Tameem, 22, a police officer, as about 200 mourners took cover from the snow under a tent.
To destroy a cemetery to dig a ditch, just because it's easier and cheaper for the developer, is no way to honor our history.
