On June 12, 1609, Moses Fletcher, along with the wife of future fellow Mayflower passenger James Chilton and several other persons were excommunicated from the Anglican church for the supposedly illegal burial.

Living with the secret of Geraldine's death and illegal burial eventually catches up with Cat, and Howard, her adoptive father, finds her and takes her away onto his houseboat.

In 1993, the state attorney general's office, led by Robert Abrams, sued the cemetery, accusing its board of financial mismanagement and the illegal burial of people in construction rubble.

In the 1990s, the Pisagua court case would draw further scruitiny to the prison camp when a claim of illegal burial was presented by the Chilean Vicariate of Solidarity on 31 May 1990.

Special Prosecutor Fernando Mendizabal said, "Torture, killing, and illegal burial of people took place at the PMA."

In 1791 the town created a committee drawn from its two Presbyterian congregations to oversee the cemetery, hire a supervisor and build a fence to deter gravestone theft and illegal burials.

The judicial investigation began prior to the claim of illegal burial presented by the Vicariate of Solidarity, 31 May 1990 in the Pozo Almonte Court.

They finally decided to follow de Castries's wish there too, although it meant an illegal burial and doing it all secretly at night.

The Indian government has since made the act of voluntary premature burial illegal, because of the unintended deaths of individuals attempting to recreate this feat.

In this situation, news of the illegal burial and Antigone's arrest would arrive at the same time and there would be no period of time in which Antigone's defiance and victory could be appreciated.