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Former Manager of Burr Oak Cemetery Pleads Guilty

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2011.  The former manager of historic Burr Oak Cemetery will spend 12 years in prison after she pled guilty to her lead role in a grave-desecration scheme that netted her more than $100,000 in cash, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Friday.

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Carolyn Towns, 51, plead guilty to six felony charges on Friday – exactly two years after she and three other Burr Oak employees were arrested for their roles in the…

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