Black Cemetery stories:
Chicago-area cemetery where graves dug up reopens
Nov 19th, 2009 - AOL News
ALSIP, Ill. -A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip reopened Thursday morning...
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.
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...
Four nabbed in ghoulish scheme to dig up graves in historic ...
Jul 9th, 2009 - NY Daily News
A group of Illinois grave diggers were charged Thursday with running a morbid scam in which they exhumed corpses in a black cemetery so they could resell the empty plots...



