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A class action lawsuit will be filed today on behalf of at least eight families who claimed the bodies of deceased loved ones were dug up and dumped in the weeds by cemetery workers so the plots in the historic Chicago graveyard could be sold again.
Attorney Louis C. Cairo told ABCNews.com that the lawsuit will be filed in the circuit court of Cook County, Ill., and is likely to grow in size as more families discover that the Burr Oak Cemetery gravesites have been tampered with or destroyed.
Related stories from top sites:
Cemetery Workers Dug Up Children's Graves
Jul 9th, 2009 - CBS News
Most people thought the story of grave desecrations in Chicago couldn't get any worse. But today comes word that the four cemetery workers accused of reselling burial plots targeted the graves of infants and children.
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...
'Nobody runs cemetery' - Chicago Sun
Jul 9th, 2009 - Chicago Sun-Times
The same day a judge agreed to turn over day-to-day control of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip to a third party, the president of the company that owns the nationally disgraced cemetery broke his silence. With lawsuits mounting...
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.
Chicago cemetery graves dug up and resold
Jul 9th, 2009 - Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four Chicago-area cemetery workers have been charged with allegedly digging up graves and dumping the remains so the burial plots could be resold, prosecutors said on Thursday.
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