Police find icon's casket, more empty plots at historic cemetery

Authorities revealed more disturbing discoveries Friday at an Illinois cemetery where hundreds of burial plots were allegedly dug up and resold, including more emptied graves and the discarded casket of a civil rights icon.

Till, 14, was brutally killed in August 1955 in Mississippi after he reportedly whistled at a white woman. Despite the gruesome condition of his corpse, his mother insisted on a public funeral and open casket in an effort to draw attention to the ferocity of her son's killing.

Cemetery groundskeepers told investigators that Till's grave was not among those disturbed in the alleged scheme, Dart said earlier this week.