Police said they expect to find human remains and the remains of several pets the brothers said also were buried in the yard.
Forensic investigators digging in the back yard of a home in Lyons on Saturday found two containers where the brothers who live there say they had buried their mother and sister years ago.
Police had said they expected to find human remains and the remains of several pets the brothers said also were buried in the yard, but the exact contents of the containers had not been confirmed.
During the dig on Saturday, the two brothers sat in lawn chairs under a tree down the street from their home. They said they were concerned about their pets — two cats and two dogs, a German Shepherd and a schnauzer mix — that had been in the home.
A neighbor, who described the men as “antisocial,” said there was no indication the home was as cluttered as police described, though the brothers had been cited several times for the condition of their overgrown yard.
A village spokesman said the brothers had been put up at a nearby hotel, and social service agencies are assisting them with clothes and other needs.
A well-being check at the home on Thursday uncovered filth and excessive clutter. But the investigation took a turn earlier in the week when Police Chief Tom Herion asked one of the brothers about their mother.
That brother, who is 45, said he had buried his mother in the back yard. His sister, too.
The man and his 41-year-old brother showed police exactly where they said the bodies had been buried. The home is in the 3900 block of Center Avenue in the western suburb.
“They were pretty detailed about what they did to the bodies, how they packaged it and how they put the bodies in the ground,” Herion told the Sun-Times on Friday.
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The home had come to the attention of authorities when public works officials noticed water had not been used at the home for more than a year.
Police found the tri-level home stacked with clutter to the point where the two brothers living there were using windows to get in and out, police said.
“I never saw such deplorable living conditions in my life, and I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Herion said Friday. Human feces and large containers filled with urine littered the home, he said.
Herion said the police department had also received a tip the mother and sister hadn’t been seen for some time.
The brothers told police they buried their mother in the yard in 2015 after their sister caused her death by pushing her down a flight of stairs.
Four years later, in 2019, the brothers buried their sister in the yard after she died, they told police.
Saturday, the brothers said their father had died in a hospital in 2017.
No charges have been filed in the case. That could change if bodies are discovered, Herion said.
After being released from a local hospital following medical and psychological evaluations, the brothers returned to the scene and shared their stories with reporters.
Their sister suffered from mental illness and was prone to bouts of violence when she pushed her mother down a flight of stairs in their home, they said.
Their mother, 72, suffered a head injury but said she would be OK. It turned out to be more serious and she died a few days later, the brothers said.
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