It's been more than two weeks since tombstone salesman Gerald Luttinen went to prison. Some customers are just now learning that the granite monuments he promised them months ago aren't going to be delivered, leaving cemetery plots unmarked and barren.
Police are unsure of the number of victims.
I believe there are people out there patiently waiting for headstones that aren't coming. And a monument wholesaler in Illinois is wondering how he can get more than a dozen granite grave markers to people he never met. My heart goes out to those people. But we don't know who they are. We never met them.