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Prosecutors said 200 to 300 bodies were dug up and dumped in an isolated, weedy area of a cemetery at which many prominent African-Americans are buried, including civil rights icon Emmett Till. Exposed bones, chunks of concrete and broken coffins litter the hilly, overgrown area about four blocks long, authorities said.
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"This crime, it's a whole new dimension that shows us what lengths people will go to for financial gain," said State's Atty. Anita Alvarez.

Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators, including dozens of FBI agents, would be at Burr Oak for months sorting through the discarded piles of bones. Not only were remains heaved into a "dump area" at the cemetery, bodies were allegedly double-buried in existing plots, Dart said.

"Literally, they were pounded [down]," he said. "They pounded the other [body] down and put someone on top."

Oh my Lord this is terrible. I feel so bad for those families. What a horrible thing to have happen. This is like that case someplace down South (I think?) where they were taking the money and basically dumping the bodies in the woods. That was a funeral home though I think.

[GoDuke]

That was in Georgia if memory serves me.

[Freedom2specul8]

The perps are sick puppies. While this will take a long time for investigators to complete their jobs, I ponder why it took so long for the crime to be discovered?!? Wouldn’t the more recent burials, or current family members have noticed the desecration? Like michele obama’s family on memorial day? I don’t understand that part. Maybe I missed that part of the story.

[misharu]

WOW! Looks like politics as usual in Chicago!

[Freedom2specul8]

Oops..

ponder = wonder

[Monterrosa-24]

“...someplace down South (I think?) where they were taking the money and basically dumping the bodies in the woods...”

That was Tri-State Mortuary and Crematorium in North Georgia near Tennessee and Alabama. Their crematory broke and while waiting for repairs they stashed bodies everywhere. It was another victory for Afirmative Action contract awarding as some local govts. sent their pauper corpses there.