Fri, Jul 10th, 2009
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.
The Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till, as well as blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington. Investigators found Till's original glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery. The 14-year-old was killed in 1955 and his battered body helped spark the civil rights movement.
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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.
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...
Graves Dug Up to Resell Plots, Cops Say
Jul 9th, 2009 - AOL News
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...
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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- Grisly Puzzle At Ill. CemeteryAfter four cemetery workers were accused of re-selling burial plots in Chicago, the FBI has been overwhelmed with 55000 requests for information. Cynthia Bowers reports.
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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 CommentsNearly 100 Bodies Dug Up, Burial Plots Resold At Burr Oak Ce
ALSIP, Ill. — Workers at a historic Illinois cemetery may have dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150-acre property in a scheme to resell plots to unsuspecting customers, authorities said Wednesday. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his office was questioning five employees from Burr Oak Cemetery(World News)
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