Four former employees, three gravediggers and a manager at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, are accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago. The team was estimated to made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years and pocketing. The perpetrators allegedly dumping some in a weeded, desolate area near the cemetery or double-stacking others in graves. The cemetery is the burial place of civil rights era lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington.
Early reports had stated that Emmett Till's casket had been undisturbed BUT today, authorities say Till's casket was reportedly found in a small shack on the grounds of the cemetery with a family of possums living inside it and old headstones and garbage surrounding it.
The 14-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was killed in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman during a visit to his uncle's house in Mississippi. Nearly 100,000 people visited the casket during a four-day public viewing in Chicago, and images of his battered body helped spark the civil rights movement.
When Till was exhumed in 2005 during an investigation of his death. Customary, he was re-buried in a new casket and the old casket(the one that was vandalized & seen in pictures after his murder) was supposed to be part of the new planned memorial.
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