Families grapple with guilt, anger at gravedigging scheme at historic Ill. cemetery

ALSIP, Ill. — Hundreds of horrified relatives grappling with guilt and anger wandered around a historic black cemetery near Chicago on Friday searching for their loved ones’ graves after former cemetery workers were accused of dumping hundreds of unearthed corpses in scheme to resell their plots.

Authorities: 4 former workers at historic Ill. cemetery made $300K in gravedigging scheme

ALSIP, Ill. — Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday.

4 workers accused of digging up bodies, reselling plots at historic Chicago-area cemetary

ALSIP, Ill. — Four cemetary workers have been charged with dismembering bodies after police found what they called “startling and revolting” conditions at a historic cemetary near Chicago.

Ill. sheriff: Cemetery workers may have dug up bodies, put them in mass graves to resell plots

ALSIP, Ill. — Workers at a historic Illinois cemetery may have dug up more than 100 bodies and dumped them in mass graves at the back of the 150-acre property in a scheme to resell plots to unsuspecting customers, authorities said Wednesday.

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