4 Workers Accused of Digging Up Bodies for Profit
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › July 10, 2009
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ALSIP, Ill. - Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that plots could be resold, authorities said.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said more than a dozen FBI agents would help sort through the evidence and identify bodies at the Burr Oak Cemetery, as distraught families waited to find out if their loved ones were among those whose graves were plundered.See the full content of this document
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4 Workers Accused of Digging Up Bodies for Profit
Many notable black Americans were buried at the site, includi...
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