Jul 9th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
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Five employees of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were taken into custody Wednesday after authorities learned numerous bodies had been dug up and the grave sites were illegally resold, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said.
Detectives discovered a pile of bones -- from more than 100 decomposed bodies -- above ground and uncovered in an overgrown, fenced-off portion of the cemetery, Dart said.
"What we found was beyond startling and revolting," the sheriff said.
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Investigation continues of unearthed bodies and resold plots at Ill. cemetery
Jul 10th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Authorities say more than a dozen more cases of disturbed graves have turned up at a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell burial plots.
Investigation continues at Burr Oak Cemetery
Jul 10th, 2009 - BostonHerald
ALSIP, Ill. — Relatives of the deceased have been flocking to historic Burr Oak Cemetery in the southern Chicago suburb of Alsip, where three gravediggers and a...
Hundreds of bodies dug up in Chicago grave reselling scheme
Jul 10th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
ALSIP, Ill. - Authorities Thursday sharply increased the estimate of the number of bodies disinterred at Burr Oak Cemetery in a suburb of Chicago in a scheme to illegally resell grave sites.
Bodies dug up, cut up at black cemetery
Jul 9th, 2009 - MSNBC
ALSIP, Ill. - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves...
4 charged with digging up more than 100 Ill. graves
Jul 9th, 2009 - USA Today
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Three men and a woman are facing felony charges after police found what they called "startling and revolting" conditions at a historic cemetery in the south Chicago suburb of Alsip.
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