Posts Tagged ‘cemetery’

For Families Struggling to Pay Bills, A Cemetery Plot Becomes an Asset to Sell (Washington Post)

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
After Debbie Jenkins got sick, couldn't work and lost two houses to foreclosure, after she burned through her savings, moved into an unheated garage in Crofton and still found herself six months behind on rent, she looked around for something to sell to help pay for the bologna and 60-cent cans of...

4 former cemetery workers indicted (MSNBC)

Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Four workers accused of digging up corpses at a historic Chicago-area cemetery as part of a scheme to resell plots have been indicted on a host of felony charges.

4 former cemetery workers indicted (MSNBC)

Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Four workers accused of digging up corpses at a historic Chicago-area cemetery as part of a scheme to resell plots have been indicted on a host of felony charges.

Hollywood Cemetery Screenings 2009 Schedule – LA Snark

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Hollywood Cemetery Screenings 2009 Schedule
LA Snark
Directed by master John Huston, based on the Tennessee Williams smash hit, and nominated for a flock of oscars, Night of the Iguana is a blast! as a ...

Foresnic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam – Scientific American

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Scientific American

Foresnic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam
Scientific American
Four employees of the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., have been charged in connection with the grave scheme, which entailed wrongfully exhuming old plots ...

Families seek answers in cemetery scheme – ABC7Chicago.com

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Families seek answers in cemetery scheme
ABC7Chicago.com
As many as 300 bodies have been removed from their graves at the historic African-American cemetery Burr Oak. The plots were allegedly resold for profit. ...

Prosecutors: Quartet of cemetery workers conspired in grisly scheme – Southtown Star

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Prosecutors: Quartet of cemetery workers conspired in grisly scheme
Southtown Star
Keith Nicks, who's worked at Burr Oak off and on since 1992, was promoted to foreman of the cemetery's grounds crew about five years ago by Towns. ...
Four arrested in scheme to dig up graves and resell plots in ...ChattahBox
How it workedSouthtown Star

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Horrific abuse at historic African-American cemetery – Examiner.com

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Horrific abuse at historic African-American cemetery
Examiner.com
Burr Oak Cemetery, in Alsip, Illinois, is the final resting place of such notables as Emmett Till, whose lynching in 1955 helped inspire many in the civil ...

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The scene at Burr Oak Cemetery – Baltimore Sun

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

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The scene at Burr Oak Cemetery
Baltimore Sun
Emmett Till's original casket sits in disrepair in a structure on the grounds of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. Till's body was exhumed in 2005 as part of ...
Mary Mitchell exclusive: Till's casket left to wasteChicago Sun-Times
News roundup: More grave errors in Chicago areaUSA Today
Casket Of Emmett Till Found Rusted In Illinois CemeteryMyStateline.com
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4 Ill. cemetery workers accused in grisly plot (AP via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager 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.