Suit accuses 2nd suburban cemetery of body-stacking scheme

GLENWOOD -- A family has filed a lawsuit alleging that a second suburban Chicago cemetery stacked bodies and resold plots in a moneymaking scheme.

The family has three generations of relatives buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South in Glenwood. At the family's request, two bodies are buried in the same grave.

The suit alleges that the grave's headstone went missing in June but reappeared after the family filed a police report. The suit also says cemetery management recently told another patron that the grave was empty and available for sale.

Cook County sheriffs are investigating Mount Glenwood after a human bone was found lying on the ground on Friday.

Calls to Mount Glenwood rang unanswered Sunday.

Authorities are investigating similar allegations at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip.