This BLACK AMERICA WEB article is about the African American Graveyard in Chicago where bodies were being dug up so the same grave spot could be resold. A worker there, though afraid to loose his job, was the whistleblower. (And we want to congradulate him on his courage.)
"Officials estimate that at least 300 of 100,000 graves were tampered with at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., which is the burial place several famous Americans including civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till. Four former workers are charged with dumping exhumed bodies in a deserted field the size of four square blocks in order to resell grave plots. Till's grave was not disturbed."
"Thousands of bones may be mixed together. Investigators say it may be impossible to sift through them to match them to specific people and return complete remains to a single grave."
- Rupa Shenoy, Associated Press
