Illinois cemetery declared crime scene

(NECN/ABC) - Only one body, and nothing abnormal, was found Saturday in an exhumed grave at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago. Police had been told told they would discover two bodies stacked on top of each other. Four former cemetery employees were accused of digging up hundreds of corpses and dumping them in a scheme to resell burial plots at Burr Oak Cemetery, which is home to, among others, the graves of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singer Dinah Washington. read more

NECN | July 11, 2009

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