ALSIP, Ill. (WBBM) -- Burials have quietly resumed at a southwest suburban cemetery that was the center of a criminal investigation all summer long.
The court-appointed administrator of Burr Oak Cemetery tells Newsradio 780 that there have been more than 20 burials there in the past few weeks. That includes those who had died and had not been able to have been buried while the investigation swirled over the summer into an alleged grave re-selling scheme.
Four people were charged in the alleged swindle. All four are out of jail on bond.
Administrator Howard Korenthal says he continues overseeing efforts to spruce up the cemetery in Alsip, trimming and cutting down trees, repairing roads and gates, and the big effort to edit a database with the names and plot locations of those buried at Burr Oak.
Korenthal hopes to have the Web site: www.burroakalsip.com ready to go before Thanksgiving. It will have about 140,000 names and plot locations that families can check.
Some names, he admits, will be missing. Those are names of people for whom no records exist because of the alleged grave-dumping scandal.
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