Sheriff: 1 body found in exhumed grave in Illinois

ALSIP, Ill. — Only one body — and nothing abnormal — has been found in an exhumed grave at a suburban Chicago cemetery where officials had been told to expect two bodies.

A sheriff’s spokeswoman said earlier Saturday that an attorney for the cemetery’s owner told Cook County authorities two bodies were in the grave at Burr Oak Cemetery. Four former workers are accused of digging up hundreds of bodies and dumping them in a scheme to resell plots.

The historic black cemetery is home to the graves of civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singer Dinah Washington.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says workers dug 7 feet down during the court-ordered exhumation and found only one body in the grave of Rachel Boone.