{"id":81,"date":"2009-07-10T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayethics\/2009\/07\/graverobbing-in-chicago-unethical-yes-disgusting-also-yes.html"},"modified":"2009-07-10T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T19:29:29","slug":"graverobbing-in-chicago-unethical-yes-disgusting-also-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayethics\/2009\/07\/graverobbing-in-chicago-unethical-yes-disgusting-also-yes.html","title":{"rendered":"Graverobbing in Chicago: Unethical? Yes. Disgusting? Also Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emmett_till_casket.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/200\/import\/Emmett_till_casket.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"226\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>More from the &#8220;Everyone Knows This Is Unethical But Let&#8217;s Enjoy a Rare Moment of Unanimity&#8221; file. Or perhaps the &#8220;Who <i>Does<\/i> That?&#8221; file.&nbsp; Apparently authorities in Chicago have been conducting an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/burr-oak-cemetery-bodies-dug-up-plots-resold.html\">investigation into graverobbers at Burr Oak Cemetery<\/a> over the last few months, culminating in a Wednesday morning raid and several arrests. <\/p>\n<p>There are some things that are universally accepted as repulsive, and desecrating the dead is on that list somewhere. I&#8217;m no cultural anthropologist, but surely that&#8217;s a safe assessment. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently not so for these grave robbers, who have been digging up graves, tossing the bodies into common areas, re-selling the burial plots and pocketing the money. Savvy scheme &#8211; too bad it&#8217;s so darn disgusting. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say as many as 300 graves were dug up as part of the plan.&nbsp; Many of those buried at Burr Oak are legendary, including boxing champ <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezzard_Charles\">Ezzard Charles<\/a>, blues legends <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_Dixon\">Willie Dixon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dinah_Washington\">Dinah Washington<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/till\/\">Emmett Till<\/a>, a young symbol&nbsp; of the American Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from the &#8220;Everyone Knows This Is Unethical But Let&#8217;s Enjoy a Rare Moment of Unanimity&#8221; file. Or perhaps the &#8220;Who Does That?&#8221; file.&nbsp; Apparently authorities in Chicago have been conducting an investigation into graverobbers at Burr Oak Cemetery over the last few months, culminating in a Wednesday morning raid and several arrests. There are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-padmini-mangunta","category-current-events","category-ethics-morality"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Graverobbing in Chicago: Unethical? Yes. Disgusting? 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