Chicago-area cemetery where 4 former workers are accused of digging up graves reopens
Chicago-area cemetery where graves dug up reopens Chicago-area cemetery where former workers allegedly dug up graves reopens on limited basis
Desecrated Ill. cemetery reopens on limited basis Ill. cemetery where ex-workers are accused of digging up graves reopens on limited basis
Ill. cemetery where graves dug up reopens ALSIP, Ill. — A suburban Chicago cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again. Authorities finish gathering evidence at Ill. cemetery where workers allegedly resold gravesALSIP, Ill. — Investigators stopped collecting evidence Friday at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago where workers allegedly dug up corpses and resold burial plots, acknowledging they’ll likely never know the identities of all the remains that were removed. Skeleton in a suit and tie found sitting in an empty vault at historic Chicago area cemeteryALSIP, Ill. — Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black Illinois cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots, officials said Friday. More discarded burial vaults found at Ill. cemetery where hundreds of bodies were dumpedALSIP, Ill. — Authorities say they’ve found discarded burial vaults in a heavily wooded part of a historic black Chicago-area cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots. AP Exclusive: Worker who exposed Ill. cemetery scandal says he spoke out over job threatsALSIP, Ill. — A gravedigger who helped expose an alleged scheme to dig up graves and resell plots at a suburban Chicago cemetery says he only spoke up after a co-worker warned him to keep his mouth shut or risk losing his job. Owner of Ill. cemetery says he had nothing to do with dumping bodies, moneymaking schemeALSIP, Ill. — The owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery that’s been closed by authorities amid allegations that workers dug up bodies and resold plots says he had nothing to do with the alleged wrongdoing. Authorities to begin identifying bodies in about 100,000 graves in Ill. cemetery investigationALSIP, Ill. — Authorities are beginning the grueling process of trying to identify the people in about 100,000 graves at a suburban Chicago cemetery where four former workers allegedly dug up bodies to resell burial plots. Rev. Jackson calls for expanded investigation into company that runs Ill. cemeteryALSIP, Ill. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called for an expanded investigation into a suburban Chicago cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping bodies in a scheme to resell plots. Stream of relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for answers; exhumation finds nothing abnormalALSIP, Ill. — A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots. Stream of relatives go to Ill. cemetery looking for bodies; exhumation finds nothing abnormalALSIP, Ill. — A constant stream of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots. Thousands go to Ill. cemetery looking for relatives’ bodies; exhumation finds nothing abnormalALSIP, Ill. — Thousands of relatives hoping to find their loved ones showed up Saturday as officials exhumed one grave in a cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping hundreds of bodies in a scheme to resell plots. 1 body, nothing abnormal, found in exhumed grave in Illinois despite report of stacked bodiesALSIP, Ill. — Only one body, and nothing abnormal, was found Saturday in an exhumed grave at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago after authorities had been told they would discover two bodies stacked on top of each other. Sheriff: 1 body found in exhumed grave in Illinois after cemetery’s lawyer said there were 2ALSIP, 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. Sheriff’s spokeswoman: Ill. cemetery confirmed 2 bodies will be found in grave being exhumedALSIP, Ill. — The attorney for the owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery has told authorities they will find two bodies in a grave being exhumed this weekend. More bones found at Ill. cemetery at center of gravedigging scheme, grounds closed to publicALSIP, Ill. — Distraught families hoping to determine whether loved ones’ final resting places at a historic black cemetery near Chicago were desecrated in a gravedigging scandal were met with more gruesome discoveries: additional human bones strewn about the grounds. Families grapple with guilt, anger at gravedigging scheme at historic Ill. cemeteryALSIP, Ill. — Hundreds of horrified relatives grappling with guilt and anger wandered around a historic black cemetery near Chicago on Friday searching for their loved ones’ graves after former cemetery workers were accused of dumping hundreds of unearthed corpses in scheme to resell their plots. Authorities: 4 former workers at historic Ill. cemetery made $300K in gravedigging schemeALSIP, Ill. — Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday. Thousands of families of flood historic Ill. cemetery 4 accused of unearthing bodiesALSIP, Ill. — Thousands of families have been flooding a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell burial plots. Sheriff: Families find more cases of disturbed graves as historic black cemetery in IllinoisALSIP, Ill. — Authorities say more than a dozen more cases of disturbed graves have turned up at a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell burial plots. Investigation continues of unearthed bodies and resold cemetery plots in Ill.ALSIP, Ill. — Authorities say more than a dozen more cases of disturbed graves have turned up at a historic black cemetery in Illinois where four people are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses in a scheme to resell burial plots. Investigation continues of unearthed bodies and resold plots at Ill. cemeteryALSIP, Ill. — Relatives of people buried in a historic cemetery south of Chicago have been flocking there to check on the graves of their loved ones. 4 accused of digging up bodies to resell burial plots at historic black cemetery near ChicagoALSIP, Ill. — 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. Sheriff: About 300 graves tampered with at historic black cemetary near Chicago; 4 chargedALSIP, Ill. — Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that plots could be resold, authorities said. 4 workers accused of digging up bodies, reselling plots at historic Chicago-area cemeteryALSIP, Ill. — Four cemetery workers have been charged with dismembering bodies after police found what they called “startling and revolting” conditions at a historic cemetery near Chicago. 4 workers accused of digging up bodies, reselling plots at historic Chicago-area cemetaryALSIP, Ill. — Four cemetary workers have been charged with dismembering bodies after police found what they called “startling and revolting” conditions at a historic cemetary near Chicago. Ill. sheriff: Cemetery workers may have dug up bodies, put them in mass graves to resell plotsALSIP, Ill. — Workers at a historic Illinois cemetery may have dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150-acre property in a scheme to resell plots to unsuspecting customers, authorities said Wednesday. |