Thu, Jul 9th, 2009
ALSIP, Ill. (July 9) - 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, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
Frantic relatives of the deceased descended on Burr Oak Cemetery — the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington — in hopes someone could tell them their loved ones' remains were not among the pile of bones that littered a remote area of the property in Alsip, 12 miles south of Chicago.
Related stories from top sites:
No rest for Emmett Till even in death; boy's original casket tied to Chicago cemetery scandal
Jul 9th, 2009 - Newsday.com
CHICAGO (AP) - When his mother put the battered body of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the ground more than 50 years ago, it was supposed to be the end of a sad saga for the boy whose lynching became a rallying point for the civil rights movement.
Authorities: 4 former workers at historic Ill. cemetery made $300K in gravedigging scheme
Jul 9th, 2009 - StarTribune.com
ALSIP, Ill. - Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years...
Investigation continues of unearthed bodies and resold plots at Ill. cemetery
Jul 9th, 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.
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 accused of digging up bodies at Ill. cemetery
Jul 9th, 2009 - Washington Post
ALSIP, Ill. -- Four cemetery workers have been charged with dismembering bodies after police found what they called "startling and revolting" conditions at a historic cemetery near Chicago.
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- Burr Oak Cemetery Nightmare...ALSIP, Ill. — (AP) 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 ...
- Cemetery Workers Made $300,000...Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday ...
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