Jul 11th, 2009 - UPI
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ALSIP, Ill., July 11 (UPI) -- The entire Chicago-area cemetery where employees allegedly violated graves has been declared a crime scene, police said Saturday.The move means family members and the news media will be barred from Burr Oak Cemetery for at least five days, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The cemetery manager and three gravediggers were arrested Wednesday on charges of digging up bodies and reselling the plots.
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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...
Cemetery with missing grave sites declared crime scene
Jul 10th, 2009 - CNN
ALSIP, Illinois (CNN) -- A Cook County cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been declared a crime scene, meaning that relatives of people believed buried there will not be allowed to visit for several days...
Investigation continues of unearthed bodies and resold plots at Ill. cemetery
Jul 10th, 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.
Investigation continues at Burr Oak Cemetery
Jul 10th, 2009 - BostonHerald
ALSIP, Ill. — Relatives of the deceased have been flocking to historic Burr Oak Cemetery in the southern Chicago suburb of Alsip, where three gravediggers and a...
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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