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ABC caught up on the scandal at Burr Oaks Cemetery in suburban Chicago that CBS' Cynthia Bowers and NBC's Kevin Tibbles covered Thursday. Barbara Pinto called the allegations that gravediggers had exhumed cadavers so they could resell plots in the historic black graveyard "an unspeakable scam." CBS' Bowers followed up with the arrival of "hundreds of grief-stricken families" at the cemetery in search of the remains of their loved ones. On NBC, Tibbles' follow-up focused on Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager whose Mississippi murder in 1955 was a galvanizing scandal of the nascent civil rights movement. Till's remains at Burr Oaks had not been disturbed but his casket had been left "rotted and ruined" after his body was exhumed for a second autopsy in 2005. "For many this derelict coffin should be a museum piece," Tibbles explained. Till's mother had insisted that the casket remain open before burial "so the world could see" the mutilated state of her boy's body.
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