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How a tiny clump of moss helped the FBI solve a grave-robbing case
In 2015, workers at the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in suburban Chicago were found guilty of desecrating human remains. They had dug up old graves, moved the remains and resold the burial plots for ...
According to botanists at the Field Museum in Chicago, moss helped close a 17-year-old grave robbing case that rocked the ...
We also wanted to] highlight the use of natural history collections and their stories and how they can be applied to questions and applied in ways we have yet to imagine.” Burr Oak Cemetery dates back ...
In 2009, a scandal was exposed at a cemetery just outside of Chicago. Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were ...
Four cemetery workers dug up and moved more than 100 bodies to resell the burial plots nearly 20 years ago ...
Around 1,500 bones belonging to at least 29 people were found where they shouldn't be. But it was moss that gave the criminals away.
In 2009, a scandal was exposed at a cemetery just outside of Chicago. Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were accused of exhuming old ...
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