There's a new twist to the horrific story of grave robbing and desecration at Burr Oak Cemetery.  A scientific paper is ...

A new scientific paper details how moss evidence helped solve the Burr Oak Cemetery grave desecration case uncovered in 2009.

A newly published scientific paper is shedding light on how investigators used moss to help solve a grave desecration case at Burr Oak Cemetery that shocked the Chicago area in 2009.

With several family members buried there, Tammy Gibson said she is very passionate about conditions at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Families with loved ones interred there “want to make sure they’re ...

Burr Oak Cemetery — the Black-owned south suburban cemetery that’s the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, singer Dinah Washington, rapper King Von and generations of other prominent figures ...

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(justhavealook/iStock/Getty Images) In a courtroom-TV-worthy twist, FBI agents and scientists used a tiny clump of moss to ...

The Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council voted to recommend the listing to the National Park Service, which would formally recognize Burr Oak as a site of national significance. For many Chicago ...

ALSIP, Ill. (CBS) – It's been one woman's tradition for more than two decades; paying respects at grandma's grave for her birthday. But this year, she says she was shocked at what she discovered ...

A Cook County judge has appointed a veteran cemetery director to run everyday operations at Burr Oak Cemetery, where an investigation continues into a grave desecration and moneymaking scheme. Judge ...