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Roman Szabelski addresses media during a Cook County Sheriff’s Office press conference on Aug. 7 at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Authorities stated they have collected about 1,200 pieces of evidence including bones, pieces of burial vaults and headstones, from Burr Oak Cemetery and concluded this phase of their investigation. The sheriff's office and the FBI said they were handing over the crime scene to Szabelski who was named the overseer of the cemetery. Szabelski is director of the Catholic Cemeteries Association of the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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