She also claimed that Jimmy had specifically requested that his brother Jeff not attend the funeral. Jim’s parents, Connie and James, were furious. They had a family plot at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Peru, and that was where their son was going to be buried. But Susan was so adamant she insisted on holding a meeting with her husband’s grown-up children, David and Jama, to discuss the issue. What made it all the more bizarre was that by this time many people—including the entire Grund clan—definitely believed that Susan had murdered her own husband earlier that week. Investigators had begged all concerned not to confront Susan, in case she tried to flee the state. Finally, it was agreed that Jimmy Grund could be buried in the family plot just so long as Susan could have her ashes buried with him when she died. The Grunds agreed to her demands with absolutely no intention of ever carrying them out. They simply wanted to make sure the funeral service went off without any embarrassing scenes caused by “grieving widow”
