Burr Oaks Cemetery (Employee A is a Hero)

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What nightmare happend at Burr Oaks Cemetery?
The stripping of cemetery graves, and four were already charged in this despicable scheme. Every family's nightmare: Burr Oak Cemetery graves allegedly stripped for profit R.I.P SHATTERED | Manger, three gravediggers charged in scheme At on...
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Where is burr oaks cemetery and why has it been in the news??
They are located in Cook County Illinois and had bodies removed from there graves for profit. At one time, Burr Oak Cemetery was the only place black Chicagoans were sure they could bury their dead. But on Wednesday, the historic African-Am...
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Who is in charge of Burr Oak cemetery?
On July 16th, the Circuit Court of Cook County appointed Roman Szabelski as the official “Receiver” of Burr Oak. He will serve as the temporary day-to-day operations chief of the cemetery.
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What happened at Burr Oak Cemetery?
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At Burr Oak Cemetery in Chicago, what did employees illegally do??

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How many bodies have been found int Burr Oak cemetery Alsip, Ill...?
"Four charged with dismembering bodies in Illinois" Four charged with dismembering bodies in Illinois - Hundreds of families are flocking to an Alsip cemetery to see if t...
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Are the police done investigating Burr Oak Cemetery?
No, the investigation into Burr Oak Cemetery is still continuing....
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What happened at Burr Oak Cemetery?
Burr Oak is ­– or was – the final resting place of approximately 100,000 people. It is a historic cemetery, where many prominent African Americans are buried, including Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose lynching and torture in 1955 in Miss...
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Where can I find information about Burr Oak Cemetery investigatio...?
It depends on who is doing the investigation , a legal firm, District Attorney,newspaper,Local police agency, The list goes on, That is who you start with,The group or person doing the investigation
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Is Burr Oak Cemetery honoring pre-need contracts?
Yes. The Cemetery is honoring pre-need contracts. A large part of the money paid on the pre-need contract is held in a trust fund which is regularly audited by the Office of the Illinois Comptroller.
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How does everyone feel about burr oak cemetery?
its disrespectful. i bet the group of people who dug them up will be haunted.
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At Burr Oak Cemetery in Chicago, what did employees illegally do??
As per the Chicago Sun-Times 'The manager of Burr Oak Cemetery and three gravediggers were charged this morning, accused of scheming to dig up gravesites and resell them. As many as 100 human bodies were removed from their graves and the pl...
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What happened at Burr Oak Cemetery?
Burr Oak is ­– or was – the final resting place of approximately 100,000 people. It is a historic cemetery, where many prominent African Americans are buried, including Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose lynching and torture in 1955 in Mississippi helped ignite the civil rights movement, as well as blues singers Dinah Washington and Willie Dixon, boxer Ezzard Charles, and several Negro League baseball players.

Four current and former cemetery employees, including the manager, have been charged with dismemberment of human bodies, a felony that carries a sentence of 6 to 30 years in prison upon conviction. At a news conference, Dart said he suspected that “irregularities” had occurred at the cemetery for at least four years and possibly much longer. He also warned that the desecration could involve many more bodies than the original estimate of 300.

Why did they do it? Greed, according to officials, who say the accused employees resold burial plots and split the money they made, approximately $300,000. To make room for the new burials, the cemetery workers allegedly excavated some caskets and dumped human remains and headstones in an unused part of the cemetery. In other cases the workers crushed caskets into the ground and buried new ones on top of them.


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Families who want to know what happened to their loved one’s remains may be in for a long and frustrating wait. Members of FBI evidence-recovery teams, some of whom worked on the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing and the 9/11 crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, are sifting through evidence. According to FBI spokesman Ross Rice, it’s impossible to estimate how long the probe will take.


If there’s a hero in this story, it’s the cemetery worker, referred to as “Employee A” in court documents, who accidentally came upon evidence of the disturbed graves. Ignoring warnings from the exposed workers to keep his discovery to himself or risk losing his job, he told another coworker about what he’d seen, and that coworker reported the crime to the cemetery’s owners.