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Grave mystery: Unknown body in cemetery PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 15 October 2004
October 8, 2004

BY ANNIE SWEENEY
Staff Reporter

Unknown bones in a cemetery.

It's certainly the right place, but considering a cemetery is a place of markers and recorded history, it's the unknown part that's troubling. A gravedigger at Wunder's Cemetery, 3963 N. Clark, discovered skeletal remains Wednesday inside a plastic bag buried about 2-1/2 feet underground between two other graves, according to a police report and sources.

Wunder's staff could not match the remains to a name in their records, but they were found in a section of the cemetery where bodies were buried more than 40 years ago.

"One of the workers was digging a site for another burial and just happened to come across this,'' said a source. "Just lying between two graves. Kind of freaky. And Halloween is coming.''

The remains were in a clear plastic bag inside a larger dark plastic bag. Cemetery workers found tissue, bones, including a skull, a set of dentures, pair of double-knit burgundy pants and a brown belt.

There are some theories.

Missing records? A mob hit? The hidden body from a long-ago murder?

"If somebody was really intent on pulling something like that off, I am sure there is a way to sneak in,'' said Vickie Hand, president of the Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home Association. "If they went two feet under and then covered it up and put the grass back, there would be no way anyone would know.''

The remains were buried far enough down not to be noticed and to leave the grass above undisturbed. But the depth fell short of the standard six feet for a burial and the body was not inside a vault or box.

Results of an autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner's office are pending. A source close to the investigation said markings on the skull suggested it had been autopsied, which might mean the burial was official but the records are missing.

"I have been in the industry 30 years and that has never happened that I am aware of,'' Hand said.




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