Spencer Robinson allegedly knocked over more than 30 headstones (Picture: Payson Police)

A man has been arrested after allegedly damaging more than 30 headstones because he thought it would make it easier for the dead to be resurrected.

Spencer Robinson, 36, is said to have knocked over more than 30 headstones – some of which were more than 100 years old – at the Payson City Cemetery in Utah on Monday night.

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Some of the headstones were over a century old (Picture: FOX 13)

And Payson Police Lieutenant Bill Wright said the 36-year-old was expecting ‘many of his friends and relatives’ to be resurrected on Easter and was hoping to make it easier.


‘It just made me sick,’ Payson City Cemetery coordinator Todd Reynaud told FOX13.



‘To think of the history that some of these old 100-year-plus headstones have had and see them destroyed the way they were.’

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Cemetery coordinator Todd Reynaud said the vandalism ‘made him feel sick’ (Picture: FOX 13)

Police arrested Robinson at his house, where they had to wrestle him to the ground to handcuff him.

Authorities said Robinson has a possible mental condition.

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