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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 ...
It may always be beneath our feet, but moss has intertwined with human history for thousands of years. Indigenous cultures ...
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 ...
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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How moss helped the FBI solve a grave-robbing case
In 2009, investigators probing a grave-desecration scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, recovered a clump of moss ...
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