Live Science by Brandon Specktor 8/2/2019
The body of infamous Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger — or, at least, the body of whoever is buried in Dillinger's Indianapolis cemetery plot — is going to be exhumed, DNA-tested and reinterred on Sept. 16, cbsnews.com reported.
This grim reaping could finally smother the flames of a conspiracy theory that's been smoldering since the gangster was reportedly shot and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago 85 years ago: Is Dillinger really buried in that grave, or did the feds kill an innocent man? [The 6 Most Gruesome Grave Robberies]
Apparently, Dillinger's family is in favor of the latter hypothesis. Two of his living relatives (his niece and nephew) have filed separate requests to exhume the body after being presented with "evidence" that the corpse in Dillinger's plot may belong to someone else, NPR wrote. That would mean Dillinger was not, in fact, shot and killed in Chicago on July 22, 1934, but lived on and evaded justice for some unknown amount of time in some unknown place. According to Dillinger’s nephew, verifying the true identity of the man in the grave is the first step to answering those unknowns.
In affidavits obtained by NPR, Dillinger's niece and nephew claim that the body interred in Dillinger's grave has several traits that do not match descriptions of their uncle, including eye color, "ear shape," fingerprints and tooth alignment. The only way to clear up the identity of the man in the grave is to dig up the body and perform DNA testing, the relatives wrote, "possibly removing a bone or bones" from the body.
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