The former director of a Chicago-area cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and resold has pleaded guilty to several charges involving the desecration of human remains.
Carolyn Towns, 51, who ran the Burr Oak Cemetery when the allegations surfaced in 2009, was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday after she pleaded guilty to all charges against her, including dismembering a human body and theft from a place of worship, according to state prosecutors in Cook County.
Three grave diggers faced similar charges.
As part of the scheme, prosecutors said, the grave diggers would exhume bodies, crushing vaults and caskets before dumping human remains at cemetery's trash site. At the time, the workers would "double stack" graves, meaning they would bury existing remains deeper into the ground before placing new remains in the same location, authorities said.
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So then anything west of the Mississippi is ass?
@Mad Hatter:
I didn't say it....
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Give this one a cold one and a blunt please.
How about it!
I dunno...minus the shister element this ponzi graveyard may work. Mass grave, one headstone listing all the people...save space...really minus the stealing...uh should make burials more affordable...communal burials...yeah, that's it!
Cremation is the way to go. Just dust in the wind.
or....turn grandma into a lifegem and wear her as a pair of earrings
cremation ! they will cremate nothing and sale body parts.
With the exception of "smoke and fumes" isn't cremation greener? I mean we aren't really keen on nasty landfills either.....seems to me that keeping PawPaw on a shelf in the den is kinder.
There,are extremely sick people,in the world today.And,this one takes the cake.JoAnn Bartholomew
i m suprised they were so stupid to think no one would come visit thier families...
The worst part being Illinois,, was all those who were taken out and dumped were still voting for the Chicago Democratic political machine. haha
I wanna be buried in my ford truck. I need power windows and cup holders in the afterlife.
I always heard that you might as well spend your money while youre alive because you cant take it with you. Apparantly in some instances you cant take your body with you either! Im donating anything that is useable and cremate the rest-spending eternity on the mantle doesnt sound so bad! Or sprinkle my ashes somewhere pleasant-it will not hurt my feelings at that point.
Man dem people got no feelings at all.
What,the heck was she thinking of?That,was a stupid move on her part,leave the dead alone.She,shall be judged someday,for what she did. JoAnn Bartholomew