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LOS ANGELES - They want to hear from the father.

The California preliminary hearing into Anna Nicole Smith's drug-overdose death is now in full swing, and next up on the stand is the father of the celebrity model's daughter.

Defense attorneys said they had been notified by the prosecution that Larry Birkhead, the musician who proved he was the father of Smith's daughter by DNA testing, would be among those called to testify Wednesday, the second day of a preliminary hearing for two doctors and Smith's former attorney-boyfriend, Howard K. Stern.

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LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and lawyer-boyfriend are all due in court this week to hear testimony about their alleged roles in supplying drugs that killed the celebrity model.

A preliminary hearing for the trio is scheduled to start Tuesday, and court officials have said it could last two to four weeks. The hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to order a trial for Howard Stern, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich.

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MIAMI - New details have emerged in the strange and sad saga of Anna Nicole Smith and this time it involves a potential murder-for-hire plot to kill her millionare husband's son as she battled him over the Houston oil tycoon's money.

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ALSIP, Ill. - “What a mess!” That is was authorities must be thinking as they begin the daunting task of trying to identify remains in each of the approximately 100,000 graves at a suburban Chicago cemetery where four former workers allegedly dug up bodies in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots burial plots.

20 agents have joined Cook County investigators at Burr Oak Cemetery. The cemetery has been closed and declared a crime scene.

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ALSIP, Ill. Six feet under. That’s where fellow inmates may want to put the four people accused of digging up hundreds of bodies for cash in a historic black cemetery, according to a law enforcement official who said the suspects were under threat from other inmates.

According to a WGN Chicago Radio interview with Sheriff Tom Dart, the suspects were relocated to a special section of Cook County Jail to avoid “serious injury” from other inmates.

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Video Courtesy Of CBS Affiliate CBS 2 Chicago

ALSIP, Ill. - Three hundred. That may be the number of bodies that were dug up from a historic black cemetary near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that their funeral plots could be resold, authorities said.

Four workers were charged Thursday in an elaborate and ghoulish scheme to profit from others' sorrows that may have gone on for years, say police.

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ALSIP, Illinois - More than 100 bodies that were supposed to rest in peace at a historic suburban Chicago cemetery may have been dug up instead, and dumped into a mass grave -- in a scheme by employees to profit by reselling the burial plots.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Wednesday that his office was questioning five employees of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. The workers are accused of conducting off-the-book burials and pocketing the cash.

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NEW YORK
New York Times: In Bronx Bomb Case, Missteps Caught on Tape
Fresh details inside the investigation from the New York Times.

New York Post: Mosque's Imam Is Prison Chaplain
The New York Post reports the imam of the Newburgh mosque where the Bronx-plot terror cell was organized has worked for more than two decades in the New York state prison system.

New York Daily News: Meet the Dangerous Terrorist Dummies
According to the New York Daily News, three of the would-be terrorists did time for dealing drugs and the fourth was a Hatian immigrant considered too insane to deport.

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"Caught On Tape:" In exclusive video provided to CBS News an eyewitness to the arrests of the suspects plotting to blow up a synagogue and attack a plane at Stewart Air National Guard Base videotaped footage of their arrests in Riverside, N.Y.

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