A tiny clump of moss discovered with the reburied remains helped investigators reconstruct what had happened. Researchers now ...

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 ...

In 2015, workers at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Chicago were found guilty of desecrating human remains. They ...

From grave robberies to missing person cases, moss samples offer crucial clues about when and where crimes occurred, highlighting the power of forensic botany.

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 ...

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 ...

Records at the suburban Chicago cemetery where four people are accused of unearthing bodies in an alleged moneymaking scheme have been found disintegrating and rotting in a rusty file cabinet. Many of ...

The owner of Burr Oak Cemetery, an Illinois burial ground that was embroiled in a grave-desecration scandal last year, is seeking more time to craft its creditor-repayment plan. In court papers Monday ...

ALSIP, Ill. (WLS) -- Remains and other items recovered during the Burr Oak Cemetery investigation were reburied Tuesday. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart organized the ceremony. Between 2003 and 2009, ...

ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Shirley Jackson prowled around the Burr Oak cemetery on a humid Wednesday morning, poking sunken headstones and wiping back grass covering about a dozen of them in search of her ...

In 2009, investigators probing a grave-desecration scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, recovered a clump of moss found about eight inches below the soil surface during evidence recovery.