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Written by DeadGirl
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Saturday, 04 June 2005 |
Remains will be under 24-hour guard until today
June 4, 2005
By Lauren FitzPatrick and Marcus K. Garner
Now that forensic scientists believe Emmett Till's body has revealed all it can about his August 1955 murder, his family will rebury him today in the Alsip cemetery where his mother also lies.
Since being unearthed earlier this week, the Chicago teen's remains have been under 24-hour guard, and clues in the reopened case of his murder at the hands of two Mississippi men have remained under wraps.
Exhumed earlier this week by court order, the body was autopsied, photographed and thoroughly examined Thursday.
Cook County sheriff's officers escorted the parade of trucks that took Till's body to the medical examiner's office Wednesday. They'll stay with the body until it is reinterred at Burr Oak Cemetery.
Crosby Smith Jr., one of Till's cousins and the executor of his mother's estate, said Mamie Till Mobley wanted her son's body placed next to her above-ground marble crypt at the entrance to the cemetery.
"We were trying to find a crypt to put his body in after they were done with it," Smith said before the exhumation. "But there (was) not enough time to make one."
Till's body needed to be reburied by Monday, according to the court order signed by a Cook County judge allowing the exhumation. The marble crypts can take up to three months to make.
Collecting evidence during Till's autopsy, however, took just one day.
Sources said chief medical examiner Edmund Donoghue opened the autopsy early Thursday morning and was assisted by a forensic anthropologist brought in by the FBI. One of the anthropologist's tasks was to reconstruct the face of the boy. His face had been badly swollen and distorted from the way he died — he was beaten, shot and dumped into a river.
Sources also said bruising could be seen on the boy's face consistent with a beating.
Keith Beauchamp, the documentary filmmaker who helped convince federal authorities to reopen the case last year, was ecstatic upon learning the autopsy was over in just a day.
"I think they found what they needed for them to do it that quickly," Beauchamp said. "That makes me feel really good."
Beauchamp turned over clues and witness testimony he found filming his documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," and said the speedy turn-around with the body meant there was valuable evidence that needed to be protected.
After Till's death, rumors began that the bloated body found in the Tallahatchie River was not Till's — that the boy was alive, carefully squirreled away by the NAACP.
The autopsy should confirm the body is Till's.
Beauchamp said during his research, he learned of a group of black U.S. Navy sailors assigned to search the river in the days after Till's abduction. The search, he said, was steeped in secrecy.
"(One of them) said he didn't know who he was looking for," Beauchamp said. "The only thing they had to go off of was Emmett's measurements.
"They found six bodies."
Beauchamp said he is "99 percent certain" that the body being returned to the ground today belongs to Till.
"Mrs. Mobley said she recognized her son," he said. "I believe Mrs. Mobley."
DNA testing to confirm once and for all that the body is Till's will take a few weeks. Till family members already have submitted samples.
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Taphophilia?
taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)
ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"
DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries
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“I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!” William Cowper (1731-1800)
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