Naranja Cemetery Subject of Lawsuit According to Riptide Report

Crime

Dade's Palms Woodlawn Cemetery Intentionally Buries Bodies In Wrong Graves, Lawsuit Claims

By Jon Tayler
When Warren Griffith died in March 2001, there was one thing his wife, Janet Griffith, and his daughter, Cynthia Quintana, could be sure of. His body, which had been laid to rest at the Palms Woodlawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, would be buried in a plot that Janet had purchased, one that had her grave next to his so the two could be close to each other in death.

For the next seven years, Janet and Cynthia visited Warren's grave in the cemetery on Old South Dixie Highway in Naranja to pay their respects. But when Janet died in November 2008 and her body was taken to Palms Woodlawn, Cynthia says she learned something horrifying: The body in her father's grave belonged to a total stranger.

In a recently filed lawsuit, Quintana alleges that Palms Woodlawn employees "intentionally mis-buried" Warren Griffith in March 2001, then buried a non-related woman in Warren's grave. To make matters worse, they hid that secret from Quintana and her mother, then buried Janet Griffith on top of another unrelated person after her death.

"The defendant's conduct was malicious and intentional [and] is outrageous and goes beyond all bounds of decency in a civilized society," the lawsuit states.

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