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Families Sue Cemetery Charged With Digging Up Bodies

Four Chicago Cemetery Workers Were Charged With Disinterring Corpses

Four people have been arrested in connection with a scheme that re-sold cemetery plots and disinterred corpses at an Illinois cemetery.
Family members search for the graves of relatives at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., July 9,... Expand
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"When we first arrived ... we were taken to a backup cemetery to a different plot, and I immediately jumped out of the car and said this is not the spot. And they told me about the situation, and they wanted to bury her there. And I said no," Eewbru told WLS.

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Eewbru was reportedly told that the plot she had purchased was unavailable because someone was already buried there.

"This is unreal. I get out here, and I can't bury my aunt," said Eewbru.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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