Gold Diggers

New records relating to a Latter-day Saint grave robbing scandal

In February 1862 a dark cloud hung over Salt Lake City’s courthouse as hundreds of people entered, looking for their loved one’s possessions that had been stolen from graves in the city’s cemetery.¹ Burial clothes from the graves of hundreds of men, women, and children of all ages were laid out on a fifty-foot table for loved ones to inspect and claim. I…