LYONS, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Investigators are expected to start digging Friday in the yard of a west suburban home where the bodies of two women may be buried.
The Lyons Police Department opened a homicide investigation Thursday after responding to a well-being check at a home on 39th and Center where two middle-aged brothers, living in squalor. Boxes, papers, and more were stacked from the floor to ceiling. There had been no running water in the home for more than a year. They claimed they were mentally ill, and eventually revealed that the bodies of their mother and sister were buried in their backyard, according to authorities.
The brothers told police their mother, who was in her late 70s, died in 2019, and "her death may have been an accident that involved" their sister, who died this past year, according to Ray Hanania, a communications consultant for the Village of Lyons.
The brothers reportedly claimed they buried the two women in the yard, because they didn’t want to pay burial costs and out of fear of the coronavirus.
Police are suspicious since the mother died the year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Both brothers were taken to the hospital, examined and released. The two remain in custody, but have yet to be charged.
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