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Current Music: Deftones: Rx Queen (cover by string quartet)

Graverobber, Graverobber. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.

SPRINGFIELD -- The FBI is investigating what happened at Burr Oak Cemetery near Chicago, which is now being called a crime scene. They're trying to identify 100,000 remains in a cemetery where four former workers are accused of digging up bodies and reselling the plots.

People who run cemeteries in this area don't recall anything like this. They say it's all about honoring the deed between the cemetery and person: you purchase the plot and it's yours for eternity.

“There's pain in this place because of the desecration,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson last week, talking about Burr Oak Cemetery.

Authorities think the former workers dug up at least 300 graves and either dumped the bodies in a vacant lot or double-buried them. The Cook County Sheriff's Office says it has received more than 7,000 written inquiries about people buried at the cemetery.

“I can't image doing that,” said Don Roller, president of the Sparta Cemetery Board.

Roller's been digging graves most his life. His grandson does the deed now but the worst he's seen in the three-acre lot is an occasional tombstone being overturned.

“We’ve got a number on every lot; that's your lot,” said Roller.

For a non-endowed cemetery like Sparta's, or a perpetual-endowed one like Greenlawn Cemetery in north Springfield, it's up to each cemetery to create and enforce its own regulations and log plots.

“By deed, contract, or computer, we have checks and balances,” said Clay Adams, general manager of Greenlawn Funeral Homes.

In Chicago, Jesse Jackson called for regulations for all cemeteries. Those we spoke to are in favor of this but say it would be hard for the states to enforce.

“The state audits us,” said Adams.

Most of the cemeteries in the Ozarks are locally owned. The caretakers, boards or funeral homes are hands on and the reselling of plots would be very hard to pull off.
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A perpetual-endowed cemetery pays a fee to the state. It will continue to be a cemetery if the owners close down but the state also oversees it. Non-endowed, like Sparta, is its own entity without state regulations.

Tags: burr oak cemetary, grave robbers
Current Mood: beat from driving all day

Him: So which candy bar are you you getting? Chunky? It is named after you!

Me: No, bitch. I prefer the Micheal Jackson Bar. White Chocolate, No Nuts.

hersheyscc_wr4

It sucks that I'm never gonna be able to use that joke again.

It was a good one.

Current Mood: contemplative

Her: Nothin' overpowers Jesus! Nothing! Anytime you feel a demon or evil around you, you just got to be like "Get behind me, Satan! Get behind me, Satan!"

Me: That's exactly what I say. Then I pass him the lube.

Current Mood: wicked

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Rob Zombie: Dragula (remix)-Supernatural videomix

Tonight at the electronics store this white kid told me my hair was "legit".

I haven't heard that word used to describe something kool since '91. Seriously.

Do people still say that? legit? Is it coming back?

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: "Penelope" starring Christina Ricci on Showtime

Yeah, it's not a good film. But the cinematography is quite fine. Definitely more entertaining and artistic comic book/strip interpretation than X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: Christina Aguilera: Falling in Love

Guess death really does come in threes.

BillyMays

Too bad. He was kinda hott.

Current Mood: drinking Smirnoff Ice

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