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Authorities have been searching Burr Oak Cemetery For Graves and remains

Authorities have been searching Burr Oak Cemetery For Graves and remains

Those responsible for the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal in Alsip,IL were those arrested and the owners of the cemetery in Texas and Arizona.Perpetua Holdings is the Arizona company  who is ultimatlely responsible. There address is 6614 E Villa Dorado Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715-4725 Their phone is 480-985-2495.

In the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal up to  Three Hundred Graves were desecrated. Over 100,000 graves and loved ones will need to be identified. Records were moldy and stuck together, and maps of the cemetery either did not exist or were not accurate. The FBI and the Cook County Sheriff in Illinois  are having a difficult time sorting this out.  Body parts were found piled up at the cemetery.

Perpetua Holdings,  an Arizona company, appears  to be the parent company of Perpetua Holdings of Illinois. Melvin Bryant is the CEO of Perpetua Holdings of Illinois who as directly responsible for the the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip,Illinois.

According to dallasnews.com

“Perpetua Holdings of Illinois, Inc. has owned the cemetery since 2001 and the company president is Melvin Bryant of Richardson, Texas. An attorney for Bryant told the newspaper that the company went to police, triggering the investigation.”

It is very important to  know who you are dealing with when making funeral arrangements at the cemetery or at the funeral home.

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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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The Burr Oak Cemetery has been declared an extended Crime Scene.

The Burr Oak Cemetery has been declared an extended Crime Scene.

The  Burr Oak Cemetery site  in  Alsip, IL has been declared a crime scene. More graves have been  discovered desecrated  The Cook  County Sheriff has declared the cemetery a growing crime scene. Friday Nite the cemetery was closed.

Over 300 grave have been dug up and the bones discarded.

Snippet from www.wbbm780.com:

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart declared all of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip a crime scene Friday night after more remains and altered grave sites were found in a second part of the cemetery.”


Dan Hynes the Comptroller of the State of Illinois stated that the company involved was responbsible for the rogue  employee  actions

Again Snippet from www.wbbm780.com:

“Meanwhile, Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes said Friday he has begun license-revocation proceedings against Perpetua Holdings Inc., the owner of the cemetery.”
“Even though it was rogue employees who were committing these atrocities, it is [Perpetua’s] cemetery, and they are ultimately responsible, and they have abused the right to hold these licenses,”

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