Clint Van Vickle displayed the tools used on the job. Van Vickle provides the grave site preparation at about 15 different cemeteries in a multi-county area.

Jake McDonough, who runs the McDonough Funeral Home in Lowell, said he believes the graves vault lid cracked, possibly due to the weight of heavy grave-digging equipment.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a grave digging machine was stolen from an Aberdeenshire cemetery. It is thought the black and yellow JCB Grave Master was taken from Kirkton Cemetery in ...

In this special report called Tales from the Grave, we learned how officials at the Old City Cemetery dig up the past to give life to those buried at the cemetery.