In 2009, investigators probing a grave-desecration scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, recovered a clump of moss found about eight inches below the soil surface during evidence recovery.

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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 graves, dumping the remains elsewhere on the ...

Four cemetery workers were convicted for illegally moving human remains. A small clump of moss became crucial forensic ...

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Four cemetery workers dug up and moved more than 100 bodies to resell the burial plots nearly 20 years ago It was a particularly heinous crime. Four workers at a cemetery near Chicago dug up more than ...

A group of scientists and law enforcement officials are pointing to the role moss can play to help solve crimes. By Samantha Drake A remote forest in south central Pennsylvania seems to be the perfect ...