New Details Emerge in Burr Oak Cemetery Grave Robbing Scandal. Here’s How a Clump of Moss Led to Convictions

It was a scandal that stunned the nation: a macabre story of modern-day grave robbing at a suburban Cook County cemetery, with human remains scooped from their burial sites, dumped elsewhere and the plots resold. The [ crimes at Burr Oak Cemetery ][1] , a historic graveyard in Alsip, came to light ...