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  • 4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot (the bodysnatchers move famous)

    07/09/2009 3:51:46 PM PDT · by restornu · 13 replies · 817+ views
    APAssociated Press Writer ^ | JULY 2009 | By SOPHIA TAREEN
    video clip ALSIP, Ill. (AP) -- 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, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies. Frantic relatives of the deceased descended on Burr Oak Cemetery - the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington - in hopes someone could tell them their loved ones' remains were not among the pile of bones that...