GUILTY IL - Robert 'Bobby' Martin, 17, Naperville, 9 April 2004

mysteriew said:

"Late one night in May 2004, Palmer took the body to Resthaven Park Cemetery, and found a freshly dug grave. He shoveled about 4 feet into the ground, and put Martin's body in the hole, near the top of a woman's coffin, authorities said."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/16/arizona.killing.ap/index.html

I wonder how many other bodies that are missing have been disposed of in this way? Such a simple way to dispose of a body, but would make it very hard to find. The soil would be very easy to dig, no one would notice it had been dug, because it was known that the soil was disturbed to bury the casket And hiding a body in a cemetary! Who would even think to look there?

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kk's mom said:

Jeez.....this story is going to give some murderers ideas on how to conceal/hide a body......

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/16/arizona.killing.ap/index.html

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Phoenix police say a man has confessed to beating Martin to death with a baseball bat last year and burying his body above a coffin in an existing grave in a cemetery in suburban Glendale...

Martin was a student at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora when his mother filed a missing person report with the Naperville Police Department on April 13, 2004. She told police she had last seen her son April 9.

Police said Martin flew to Arizona to meet with Palmer. Palmer told police that Martin came to Arizona to buy marijuana and take it back to the Chicago area where he could sell it at a profit, Morales said. "They got into a verbal dispute over the business end of it."

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A man was convicted in Maricopa County Superior Court Wednesday of robbing and beating an Illinois teen to death before burying him in an occupied grave.

The jury deliberated for two days before convicting Richie Palmer of first-degree murder, robbery, theft, criminal damage and two conspiracy charges.

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