Jul 11th, 2009 - ChicagoTribune
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, described in office documents as "Baby Land."
Outside the gates of what is now a 150-acre crime scene, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said navigating the cemetery's wildly disorganized records of more than 100,000 grave sites is "like trying to read hieroglyphics." That, he said, is making the task of sorting out what has happened at the defiled site even more daunting.
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