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NEWS ABOUT: grave robbing

grave robbing stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - A former Beverly Hills resident is about to get a rude awakening when he's evicted from his crypt above Marilyn Monroe so his wife can sell it, reports the Los Angeles Times. Elsie Poncher says her hubby was a "helluva nice guy," but she needs the money to... More »

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eBay • auction • grave robbing • Marilyn Monroe • Joe DiMaggio • cemetery • crypt • burial plot

(Newser) - Animal rights militants have torched the home of the CEO of drug giant Novartis and stolen his mother's ashes from a Swiss cemetery, say company officials. Employees' cars have also been vandalized and attacked with crude explosive devices, reports the Wall Street Journal. More »

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drug companies • animal rights • Novartis • grave robbing • animal testing • arson

(Newser) - Police declared the whole of Burr Oak cemetery in the Chicago suburbs to be a crime scene last night, after hundreds of families reported empty or missing graves, including an entire section of the cemetery called Babyland, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Relatives will be barred from the site for about... More »

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Chicago • grave robbing • Illinois • burial • cemetery • Emmett Till • Burr Oak Cemetery

 Emmett Till's  
 Casket Found  
 'Rusted, Battered' 

Locals search for loved ones' graves at desecrated cemetery

Jul 10, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Chicagoans mourned the desecration of a historic cemetery, the casket of civil rights icon Emmett Till was found rusted in a shack amid garbage and gravestones, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. “When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out,”... More »

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Chicago • crime • murder • grave robbing • Illinois • Mississippi • civil rights • excavation • civil rights movement • Emmett Till • Burr Oak Cemetery

 Cemetery Workers Dug Up 
 Bodies, Resold Graves 

Illinois cemetery employees excavated graves, dumped remains for cash

Jul 9, 09 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four employees of a historic Chicago-area cemetery face charges after police uncovered a gruesome scheme to excavate graves, remove the human remains, and resell the plots, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. One manager and three grave diggers at Burr Oak Cemetery are charged with dismembering a human body, which carries of... More »

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grave robbing • Illinois • resales • excavation • burial • scheme • Burr Oak Cemetery

Chinese Killer Supplied
Corpse Brides

"Weddings for the dead" making a comeback in rural areas

May 18, 07 9:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities have arrested a man said to have killed six women in order to sell their bodies to families seeking "ghost brides"  to marry their deceased sons. He and three other corpse traders are reputed to be members of an underground supply network prompted by  a growing... More »

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China • corpse • murder • ghost bride • grave robbing

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