WHAT A HEEL: Grave Robbing: A Ghoulish New Trend?
If one occurrence of something can be a fluke and two occurrences can be a coincidence, three occurrences is surely a trend – especially in journalism. So here goes: † Burr Oak Cemetery office manager Carolyn Towns and gravediggers Keith Nicks, Terrance Nicks and Maurice Daley face felony charges of dismembering a human body after authorities discovered that hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold at the historic African-American cemetery Alsip, IL, reports CNN: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said the four would resell the plots in Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, excavate the graves, dump the remains and pocket the cash. … “They would excavate a grave and would proceed to dump the remains wherever they found a place to do it in the back of the cemetery. This was not moving graves; this was not replacing graves; this was dumping of them.” In some cases, graves were stacked on top of each other, they “literally pounded the other one down,” Dart said. In all about 300 graves may hav
