BODIES DUG UP - SCANDAL at Burr Oak Cemetery, and the Emmet Till & Barbara Acklin Stories. Alsip, IL

Описание: UPDATE!!! We have made contact with the Acklin family. Happy to pass along the news that they had ALREADY made prior arrangements for a marker for Barbara. It was underway and there will be a marker placed there. Thanks to subscribers TheRealGuero, KA SPEAKS, Chan Ward, and all of the rest of you who chipped in and passed the word along.

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Chicago-area residents woke up to a story that sounded like the plot line of their worst nightmare. Employees of Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Alsip were accused of digging up bodies and re-selling the burial plots, disposing of bones in a remote area on the cemetery’s northern edge. Investigators raided the cemetery on July 8, 2009, and what they found was WORSE than that nightmare.

Hundreds of graves had been desecrated. Grand Theft transformed into Money Scheme, which had been going on for some 5 years. More than 200 to 400 graves had been affected by this scandal.

JUST IMAGINE WHAT JEWELRY AND FAMILY HEIRLOOMS WERE STOLEN OFF THE BODIES.

As news of the despicable behavior broke, hundreds of worried relatives began descending on Burr Oak, worried that their loved ones were among those who had been dug up and discarded.

Among the revelations, investigators discovered the deteriorating casket of EMMETT TILL covered with a tarp amid other debris in a garage behind the cemetery’s main office. Till had been exhumed in 2005 and reburied in a newer casket. His original casket was considered a relic of the civil rights movement. The public was shocked to learn it had been left to decay in such deplorable conditions. This really upset the Till family. The wife of one of the FBI anthropologists who worked for the Smithsonian Institution restored casket and it is now at an honored spot at the Museum of African American History in Washington.

Cemetery manager Carolyn Towns drew a 12-year prison sentence for her role in the crimes. Backhoe operator Maurice Dailey was sentenced to 3 years of probation, foreman Keith Nicks drew a 6 year prison term, and his brother Terrence Nicks was sentenced to 3 years.

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NEWS COVERAGE ON THE BURR OAK CEMETERY SCANDAL: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local...
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