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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, authorities said Friday.
Three gravediggers and a manager at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses and either dumping some in a weeded, desolate area near the cemetery or double-stacking others in graves. The cemetery is the burial place of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington.
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Moldy records, mixed-up bones may make identifying many remains at Ill. cemetery impossible
Jul 9th, 2009 - Newsday.com
CHICAGO (AP) - Human remains strewn amid overgrown weeds have deteriorated into jumbled bones. Paper records in a rusted metal cabinet have dissolved into dust. Days after...
Ill. cemetery says 2 bodies will be found in grave
Jul 9th, 2009 - WTOP.com
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - The attorney for the owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery has told authorities they will find two bodies in a grave being exhumed this weekend. Cook...
More bones found at Ill. cemetery at center of gravedigging scheme, grounds closed to public
Jul 9th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune.com
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Some horrified relatives who searched Friday for loved ones' plots at the historic black cemetery at the center of a gravedigging scheme near Chicago instead found more bones on the grounds...
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...
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More Burial Vaults Found Dumped In Woods At Burr Oak Cemeter
Ill. ; Authorities say they've found discarded burial vaults in a heavily wooded part of a historic black Chicago-area cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots. Cook County Sheriff's office spokesman Steve Patterson says about 10 to 12 cement vaults were found in the same area.(World News)
il128Fri, Jul 31st, 20093 Diggs, 1 CommentsBurr Oak Cemetery Alsip, IL: 4 Accused Of Digging Up Bodies
ALSIP, Ill. — Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that plots could be resold, authorities said.(World News)
thejokerswild82Thu, Jul 9th, 20092 Diggs, 0 Comments4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot
Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that plots could be resold, authorities said.(Odd Stuff)
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