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Sheriff: Cemetery recordkeeping 'outrageous'
Records of what authorities now say is more than 100,000 grave sites at Burr Oak Cemetery are either nonexistent or "like trying to read hieroglyphics," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said today. Comment?
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Cook County Sheriff declares ALL of Burr Oak cemetery a crime scene | Cemetery closed to public
... places. In some cases there's new headstones and others, there's just nothing. There's serious issues," Cook County Sherriff Tom Dart said. Several family with relatives buried at Burr Oak have filed lawsuits or are considering moving their loved ... Comment?
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Exhumation at US cemetery finds 1 body in grave
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... 2009. It is same room that the original glass-topped casket of lynching victim Emmett Till was found rusting by Cook County officials investigating at the cemetery where four workers are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots. The 14-year-old ... Comment?
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Man held on $800K bond in mother's death
... West 14th St., was charged Friday with one count of first-degree murder in the death of his 82-year-old mother. Cook County Judge Laura Sullivan set bond at $800,000 for Atkins during a Saturday hearing, according to a Cook County clerk. Georgia ... Comment?
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Cemetery workers made $300K in scheme
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... Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington. While Till's grave site was not disturbed, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack at the cemetery. The ... Comment?
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Son Accused of Killing 82-Year-Old Mom
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... West 14th St., was charged Friday with one count of first-degree murder in the death of his 82-year-old mother. Cook County Judge Laura Sullivan set bond at $800,000 for Atkins during a Saturday hearing, according to a Cook County clerk. Georgia ... Comment?
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Accused Grave Diggers' Relative Has Record
... for profit at Burr Oak Cemetery near Alsip, Ill., intensified Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported that former Cook County employee Robert Nicks -- a relative of Keith Nicks, 45, Terrence Nicks, 39, both charged with taking part in the alleged ... Comment?
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Man Held on $800,000 Bond in Mother's Death
... West 14th St., was charged Friday with one count of first-degree murder in the death of his 82-year-old mother. Cook County Judge Laura Sullivan set bond at $800,000 for Atkins during a Saturday hearing, according to a Cook County clerk. Georgia ... Comment?
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Retired Chicago Police detective
... have some papers from when he turned over weapons he had from the prisoners." "When he came back, he worked for Cook County state's attorney Benjamin Adamowski's office as an investigator," his son said. "That may have been what inspired him to be a ... Comment?
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Unearthed graves: FBI says DNA tests on bones not planned 'at this point'
... human. "Just to do that will be a major effort," Rice said. Once the search and testing have been completed, the Cook County medical examiner's office might have to determine how the reburial of the human remains is handled. The head of that office ... 9 comments
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One killed, others seriously injured in Dan Ryan crash
... was injured in the crash has died. The sergeant said the man, identified as George Harris, 40, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office, was a backseat passenger inside a minivan that was rear-ended in the crash. Harris, of 17121 S. ... Comment?
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... and reselling the grave plots. "People have gone to gravesides where a different person is there now," says Cook County, Illinois sheriff Tom Dart. Juanita Merritt has visited the graves of her parents in the cemetery, but now she and her sisters ... Comment?
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... 'I found bones out there, I found individuals wandering aimlessly around' who also found bones and other things, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. He did not offer details. Families still would be able file inquires at the cemetery on Saturday, ... Comment?
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More bones found, Illinois cemetery closed
... "I found bones out there, I found individuals wandering aimlessly around" who also found bones and other things, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Friday night in announcing that Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip would be closed to the public. He did not ... Comment?
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More Bones Found As Ill. Cemetery Shut To Public
... and visitors came across more remains while seeking answers, authorities closed the cemetery. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Friday night he will close Burr Oak Cemetery immediately for an estimated five to seven days, so that ... Comment?
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More bones found, Burr Oak Cemetery closed to public
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart declared all of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip a crime scene Friday night after more remains and altered grave sites were found in a second part of the cemetery. Comment?
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Infant headstones among missing at Burr Oak
... from cemetery officials that there are two bodies buried in that plot,'' said Brittney Blair, spokeswoman for Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. But after Boone was exhumed today, Dart said authorities found 'no irregularities'' with the grave, meaning ... Comment?
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4 charged over damage in historic cemetery
... cemetery near Chicago where civil rights martyr Emmett Till is buried. Till's grave site was not disturbed, but Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators found his original iconic glass-topped casket rusting in a shack, surrounding by trash ... Comment?
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Families grapple with anger at gravedigging scheme
... through rows of graves at the cemetery on Friday hoping to find the their family members' plots undisturbed. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said thousands have flooded the cemetery since Thursday. Several, including McLemore, have reported that the ... Comment?
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Cemetery in grave scheme being closed
... four employees are accused of digging up bodies to resell plots after more bones were found on the property. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Friday that families can no longer wander through Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip to check loved ones' graves ... Comment?
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