More disturbing news from Illinois' Burr Oak Cemetery, where four employees were arrested for exhuming up to 300 bodies and dumping them elsewhere to resell the plots.

Broken. Rusted. Battered. The image of a glass-covered casket with the body of Emmett Till was shown around the world in the 1950s. But on Thursday, as hundreds of African Americans searched frantically for the graves of love ones, the battered casket of Till was rusting in the back of a shack at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip.

The casket was surrounded by garbage and discarded headstones strewn about like litter.

"When we opened it up trying to find what we have, a family of possums ran out," said Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

The story is more symbolic than anything else-Till was buried in a different coffin after being exhumed in 2005-but it's both depressing and outrageous nonetheless.