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US grave scam
Jul 10 2009, Chad

Police have charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme to dig up graves at a Chicago cemetery in order to resell the plots.

Bones from more than 100 bodies were discovered in mass graves at the city’s Burr Oak Cemetery.

The historic...

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