Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black Illinois cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said detectives were exhuming that grave site and two others, including one where two burial vaults were stacked on top of each other – the first proof that the alleged plot involved burying bodies on already-occupied grave sites.
"An individual casket was removed and someone was put underneath inappropriately," Dart told reporters at the Burr Oak Cemetery. He said the original vault was taken out and buried again on top of a second vault unbeknownst to the family of the person whom records show is buried there.
The suburban Chicago cemetery is the final resting place of perhaps 100,000 people, including civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett Till, boxer Ezzard Charles and blues singers Dinah Washington and Willie Dixon. Authorities have said there is no evidence that any of those graves were tampered with.
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