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Four years ago, Matt Hamilton tried to blow the whistle on the diabolical scheme that is unfolding at Burr Oak.
Hamilton supervised a crew of utility workers who were installing poles in the area where police officials believe more than 300 bodies were dumped by cemetery workers.
"When I was out there, there had to be 100 bodies -- skulls, legs, arms -- it was insane," Hamilton said. "I almost got sick."
Hamilton said he called the Alsip Police Department, but by the time police officers came out the next day, someone had covered up the bones.
He also called the media but couldn't convince anyone to pick up the story.
So, he was dumbfounded on Tuesday when WMAQ-Channel 5 reported that two utility contractors saw bodies and open coffins four years ago.
The station reported that after their complaint to Alsip police, the contractors had to shut down their work on power lines for 10 days.
Hamilton said he had refused to go back to work in the cemetery until the situation was investigated.
"I was not setting no poles where skull bones were lying around," Hamilton said.
But seeing the bones wasn't the worst of it, Hamilton said.
"There was a guy working on my crew who was from out of town. He picked up one of the skull bones and took it back to his hotel room," he said.
Hamilton said the hotel was in Monee, so Hamilton called the Monee Police Department.
"The guy was arrested and the police took the skull for evidence," Hamilton said.
A spokesman for the Illinois State Police could not verify whether or not the Illinois Forensic lab had received the skull, and referred me to the Monee Police Department.
I've called Monee Police Chief Russell Caruso twice and he has not returned my phone calls.
But Hamilton said four years ago, no one was interested in investigating his grisly discovery.
For instance, Hamilton said when officers with the Alsip Police Department showed up, they told him that Burr Oak was not in that department's jurisdiction.
He then called the Cook County Sheriff's Department but by the time officers came out to check out his complaint, only a couple of bones were visible.
"The officers told me they really couldn't do anything about what Burr Oak was doing with their property," Hamilton said.
A spokesman for the Cook County Sheriff's Department claims that officers with that department were not involved in the incident.
The spokesman also said that complaints about Burr Oak Cemetery would have gone to the Alsip Police Department.
Alsip Police Chief Christopher Radz said he would reopen the investigation into Hamilton's allegations that were made four years ago because of the discrepancies.
"I do not have personal knowledge of the investigation, Radz said. "I am looking at it with fresh eyes."
About two months after his encounter at Burr Oak, Hamilton said he left Chicago to work in New Orleans.
"Ironically, I was just driving down a street near Burr Oak the other day and thinking that that was the most horrific thing I have ever seen," Hamilton said.
"When we were in the cemetery, we had to put those poles inside those fence lines that is now barricaded as a crime scene," he said.
"I was nervous about it because I didn't want to be digging up some of the graves."
But even before running across the bones, Hamilton said he was troubled by the frenzy of activity going on in the section where his crew was working.
"They took out all the grass in the whole section and it was like they took out a half acre of graves -- all dug up and there were many, many headstones, at least two dozen," Hamilton said.
"I didn't know if after a certain time your lease is up or what," he said.
"It was a pile of headstones and bones that had to be 10 feet tall and 15 feet wide. It was not for the fainthearted,"Hamilton recalled.
Hamilton said he fired the worker who took the skull from the cemetery, and he doesn't know if the police ever charged him with anything.
"Literally, that day has haunted me for years," he said.
