Illinois Cemetery Workers Indicted
A grand jury has handed down a seven-count indictment against four former workers at a historic black cemetery near Chicago that accuses them of theft and desecrating human remains. Prosecutors in Cook County announced the indictment at a court appearance Thursday. The charges also include dismembering human remains, removal of a gravestone or marker, removal of multiple deceases human beings and conspiracy to dismember human bodies.
Published: August 6, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) - A grand jury has handed down a seven-count indictment against four former workers at a historic black cemetery near Chicago that accuses them of theft and desecrating human remains.
Prosecutors in Cook County announced the indictment at a court appearance Thursday. The charges also include dismembering human remains, removal of a gravestone or marker, removal of multiple deceases human beings and conspiracy to dismember human bodies.
The three former gravediggers and a former administrator at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were arrested last month. They’re accused of digging up and dumping remains as well as stacking burial vaults on top of each other in order to resell plots.
Authorities say the scheme netted the suspects about $300,000.
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