Burr Oak Cemetery stories:
No rest for Emmett Till even in death; boy's original casket tied to Chicago cemetery scandal
Jul 13th, 2009 - Newsday
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.
Violated cemetery now a crime scene
Jul 11th, 2009 - UPI
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.
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.
Hundreds of bodies dug up in Chicago grave reselling scheme
Jul 10th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
ALSIP, Ill. - Authorities Thursday sharply increased the estimate of the number of bodies disinterred at Burr Oak Cemetery in a suburb of Chicago in a scheme to illegally resell grave sites.
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.
Burr Oak Cemetery videos from YouTube:
8:35BURR OAK CEMETERY - THE BODY SNATCHERS
The Cook County Sheriff's Department took over Burr Oak Cemetery. Not one employee showed up for work today. July 09, 2009.
0:55BURR OAK CEMETERY - BODIES SCATTERED EVERYWHERE
This video was hard to shoot. As I approached my mother's grave, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I thought the worst. Fortunately, when I reached her grave, it was intact, flowers and all. Thank God
3:15NBC News: Historic Cemetary Desecrated for Money
ANOTHER RITUAL?It's the Summer.... From NBC News From Chicago Workers at Historic Cemetery Dig Up 100+ Graves, Dump Bodies and Resell Plots
Burr Oak Cemetery from WikiPedia:
Burr Oak Cemetery is a cemetery located in unincorporated Cook County, Illinois, adjacent to Alsip, a suburb slightly southwest of Chicago. Many musicians from the Chicago blues era are buried here.
On July 9, 2009 Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart alleged that four workers at Burr Oak cemetery dug up more than 200 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves, and resold the plots. The three men and one woman were charged with one count each of dismembering a human body.
Because of the investigation, the entire cemetery was declared a crime scene by the Cook County Sheriff's Office and closed to the public. The court-assigned receiver temporarily managing the cemetery had hoped to reopen it in September, but on October 13, 2009 visiting families found the cemetery still closed, with no statement on when it would reopen. The sheriff's office has set up a searchable database with photographs of most headstones. The cemetery records were in great disarray, but the sheriff's office has computerized the usable ones and turned them over to the receiver for integration into the database.
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