Earning 'a special place in hell'
ALSIP, Ill. - Prosecutors yesterday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago so that plots could be resold, authorities said.
As frantic relatives of the deceased descended on the Burr Oak Cemetery - the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington - investigators said it could be months before they fully understand what took place.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, flanked by distraught family members at the cemetery in Alsip, expressed the outrage he was feeling at the workers accused of tossing human remains into a remote area of a cemetery.
"In my judgment, there should be no bail for them, there should be really a special place in hell for these graveyard thieves who have done so much, hurt these families," he said. *
