Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Tom Dart on Thursday said the way the county buries the indigent is "appalling." Caskets are stacked atop each other and multiple remains are sometimes put in a single casket. Dart claimed that Homewood Memorial Gardens, which holds the county contract for the burials, has no system to map where bodies are buried, which could impede criminal investigations. Cemetery president Tom Flynn denied Dart's allegations and said the cemetery maintains file cards with information on the bodies of indigents, as required by its contract.
