Skeleton without coffin found at Burr Oak

Skeleton without coffin found at Burr Oak
July 31, 2009 4:05 PM BREAKING STORY
Sheriff's police revealed a shocking new discovery today in their investigation of the Burr Oak cemetery: a skeleton wearing a suit and tie, sitting in a burial vault without a coffin.

Records show the man was originally buried in a coffin, but it isn't clear where that coffin now is, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a press conference today.

The skeleton's vault, found in an open pit, is one of three vaults Cook County Judge Arthur Hill ordered exhumed, Dart said.

The second and third vaults are in different parts of the cemetery, he said.

The second vault, near the cemetery entrance, had been "double-stacked," Dart said. In that case, a properly buried body appeared to have been dug up, then re-buried on top of another, hidden body, Dart said.
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Skeleton without coffin found at Burr Oak