I just checked the website of the cemetery,where Williamson is buried and there is at least one virtual memorial note that has been posted since I have been writing about this. There are also, for the first time, memorial notes left for each of the five baby murder victims. I have no direct evidence that anything written here has been read by anybody in Gallitzin or Cambria County but someone is reading them. With hope, or at least in hope, this open letter is written:
Residents of Cambria County, Pennsylvania:
Stella Elizabeth Williamson's headstone in your Richland Cemetery is a monument to a serial killer. It is a monument to the perpetrator of the murders of five living babies, one nine months old, "chubby," old enough to sit up. It is a monument to evil.
Williamson's headstone mocks you. It mocks your ignorance. It is monument to your indifference and callousness. It is a shameful and embarrassing stain upon you. It marks you. For thirty-four years each of you has worn a red granite stain of Williamson's name on your faces.
Remove it. Remove the stain, remove the headstone. Petition Richland Cemetery, petition your governments, but remove it. When Penn State hesitated to remove the shameful stain of Joe Paterno's statue some Penn State people threatened to remove it themselves. And it was done. Whatever it takes, just remove that headstone.
