CHICAGO (AP) — The Cook County sheriff trying to stop a cemetery from burying more bodies in area where scores of human bones were found now says there's more reason to prevent burials: Far more human remains than originally thought.
In a news release, Sheriff Tom Dart says
archeologists surveyed a corner of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip that cemetery
officials have said was only used to dump broken headstones, branches and other
debris. He says they discovered human remains and coffin pieces — some of them
charred — as deep as 8 feet.
Dart's office launched an investigation in 2009 and
four workers at the historic black cemetery were arrested on charges that they
dug up remains and resold burial plots.
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2011 The Associated Press.
