Fri, Jul 10th, 2009
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.
Two hundred to 300 bodies were dug up and dumped into an isolated, weedy area of the cemetery, where many prominent African-Americans are buried, including Emmett Till.
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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.
'It's going to be getting worse'
Jul 9th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune.com
Investigators said Saturday two key maps are missing at Burr Oak Cemetery: one for the second swath of the graveyard where human remains have been found and another for a section where infants were buried...
Outside Chicago, a Grim Tale of Unearthed Graves
Jul 9th, 2009 - TIME
The first report, that 50 or so graves had been disturbed at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. — the final resting place of civil rights icon Emmett Till, and the singer Dinah Washington — was grotesque...
More Bones Found, Illinois Cemetery Closed
Jul 9th, 2009 - TIME
(ALSIP, Ill.) — 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...
Bodies unearthed at Alsip cemetery
Jul 9th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune.com
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...
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Emmett Till Memorial Fund Scam Part Of Burr Oak Cemetery Sch
The woman behind a long-running scheme to dig up bodies and resell the grave sites in a historic African American cemetery also embezzled funds from an Emmett Till memorial foundation, authorities said. Carolyn Towns, 49, the former manager of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, was charged along with three others Tuesday with dismembering a human body, a (World News)
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