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,...
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.
Three gravediggers and a manager at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip are accused of unearthing hundreds of corpses and either 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.
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 14-year-old Chicagoan 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.
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greed has no colour...nor does lack of character..or lack of conscience...the issues here are not about colour but about the immorality and the lengths that people will go to .lets not forget what this vid is about...I feel for the families of loved ones burried there...and for the families of the criminals....how selfish can ya be!
you make an excellent point but collectively.....black people are tired of society blaming a race as a whole for crimes that individual people commit.
plus the fact, eventually people will come to terms with this, I have family buried out there too. But can you imagine the emotional scars of being locked up for 24 years by your father and bearing 7 of his children?
Now that's defintely a crime for your ass. i said that to answer your question, how can people do this to their own people. It doesn't matter what color, race or creed you are. Motivation is the bottomline. Greed was there motivation. Have you ever done something in your life that was immoral or wrong? What motivated you to do it. You see what I'm saying....doesn't matter what color you are.
Okay...I have a crime for you...How can a mutha fucka make his wife and family beleive that is 18 year old ran away and the whole time this WHITE man had his daughter locked away in a mutha fuckin sound proof, windowless cellar...having sex with her, fathering 7 chilodren. & when the babies were born, he would pretend like she left the baby on the door step. 7 babies by your father? That man wasn't black. So which crime is worse? Is it a comparable crime to a black man or is it all fucked up?
Oh thank god the people endighted in this who owned the cemetary were black! sweet baby jesus! if they were white we might have needed somebody to go over there to say something for a calming effect. can you say race riot. oh THANK THE HEAVENS!!! THANK GOD THE PEOPLE IN TROUBLE ARE BLACK! any...im gonna go order a pizza now im hungry. have a nice night.
i completely agree bro...THANK SWEET BABY JESUS!! KISS MY SWEET ASS and smack my face THANK GOD the people who did this were BLACK!! all us scared honkys would have to hide in bomb shelters for fear of a race riots. oh LORD and all the appologies that would be demaned by sharpton's big mouth that we won't have to listen to...PRAISE THE HEAVENS...THERE MIGHT JUST BE A GOD!...oh i feel sorry for the families of the dead people who were moved....have a good day.
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