More than 100 graves dug up, bodies dumped (Illinois)

More than 100 graves have been dug up in historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip over the last several years and the bodies dumped "in a massive pile on cemetery grounds" so the plots could be resold, authorities say.

Sheriff Tom Dart says the scheme had been going on for the last 4 years in the cemetery, where many famous African-Americans are buried, including Emmett Till, Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington.

That could make identifying the bodies and matching them with the right graves very difficult, one source said.