Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Kathy Stadtfeldt describes finding 100-year-old human bones in late September an empty lot near the West Chicago Park District building on Thursday, November 8, 2012, in West Chicago. Stadtfeldt said she realized the bones were human by a gold crown among the set of teeth at the site. | Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media
A fence stands along property belonging to the city of West Chicago where Kathy Stadtfeldt stumbled across a set of human bones that had accidentally been dug up in an Aurora cemetery and dumped here. Stadtfeldt said on Thursday that the fence went up within a couple of weeks of the discovery. | Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Pictures of bones and casket parts that Stadtfeld found while digging in a dirt pile in West Chicago. Police were initially called in to investigate, but quickly determined the bones were historical. It was later revealed that the bones had been dug up from an Aurora cemetery and dumped in West Chicago. | courtesy of Kathy Stadtfeld
Kathy Stadtfeldt points to where she emerged from a walk in the woods in late September and into a field where she stumbled across a set of 100-year-old human bones, which had been dug up in an Aurora and dumped in West Chicago, on Thursday, November 8, 2012. | Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media
Kathy Stadtfeldt walks toward an area on Thursday, November 8, 2012, where she found a set of 100-year-old human bones in a field near the West Chicago Park District building in late September. The city, which owns the property, has since put up a chain link fence around the area. | Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media
After walking through the woods near the West Chicago Park District building, Kathy Stadtfeldt ended up in this field and found a set of 100-year-old human bones in a dirt pile. The bones had accidentally dug up in an Aurora cemetery and deposited in the field, which is property of the city of West Chicago. | Jeff Cagle~For Sun-Times Media
Bob Lindoo, caretaker at the West Aurora Cemetery. | Sun-Times Media File
It’s never really a good day to find human bones. But Sept. 23, 2012, was pleasant enough. It was mostly sunny, a bit crisp. A nice Sunday for a hike. For Kathy Stadtfeld, that meant a chance for one of her favorite hobbies: scavenging. She …