Police: Graves dug up to resell plots
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Police: Graves dug up to resell plots
(NECN/WLS) - Four workers accused of digging up bodies at a historic cemetery in Alsip, Ill., were charged on Thursday morning. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the workers dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150-acre property at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, about 20 miles southwest of Chicago. The plots were then resold to unsuspecting customers, Dart said. Four cemetery workers were charged Thursday morning with one count each of dismembering a human body, a class X Felony: Carolyn Towns, 49, of Chicago; read more
NECN | July 9, 2009
