Cemetery Workers Dug Up Children's Graves

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.

Now investigators are left with a gruesome puzzle, where even the cemetery's owner says he's a victim, as CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers reports.

Burr Oak cemetery is now a 150-acre crime scene - relatives locked out while forensic investigators from around the country sift for evidence.

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