You think you’ve heard it all and then this news comes along. 4 Chicago, Illinois cemetery workers — including the manager — were arrested and charged with grave tampering. Wait, it gets worse.
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.
As frantic relatives of the deceased descended on the Burr Oak Cemetery — the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till, blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington — investigators said it could be months before they fully understand what took place.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, flanked by distraught family members, expressed the outrage he was feeling at the workers accused of tossing human remains into a remote area of a cemetery.
“In my judgment, there should be no bail for them, there should be really a special place in hell for these graveyard thieves who have done so much, hurt these families,” he said. READ MORE…
