In a gruesome story, police outside Chicago are investigating a scheme by cemetery operators to dig up graves, dump the bodies, and re-sell the burial plots. Over 200 plots in the traditionally black cemetery of Burr Oak in Alsip, Illinois, were opened and re-sold. For more details of the story, we go to Lolly Bowean, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, who is covering the story.
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Great interview
I remember this occurring in the mid-90s in Riverside, California, when another African-American owned cemetery owner did the same thing. She and her adult children saw jail time. I hope the same happens for these folks.
Big deal. These bodies were dead. Cemeteries are a waste of good real estate in the first place. The authorities should purge them all periodically and cremate the remains.
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