By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The nephew of notorious American gangster John Dillinger has received permission to exhume the body of his uncle in an Indianapolis cemetery on New Year’s Eve.
The nephew, Michael Thompson, he has evidence that his bank robbing uncle was not shot by the FBI at a theater in Chicago in 1934 and that his body is not buried under the headstone at Crown Hill Cemetery
The family plans to conduct DNA tests of the body.
The exhumation permit was approved last week by the Indiana Department of Health, Fox-59 reports.
Cemetery officials have opposed the exhumation.
Dillinger was considered “Public Enemy No. 1” by the FBI after his gang killed at least 10 people, robbed banks and even staged three jailbreaks from 1933 to 1934.
Two months ago, the FBI disputed claims that the FBI killed another man who was not Dillinger.
“A wealth of information supports Dillinger’s demise including 3 sets of fingerprints, all positively matched,” the FBI tweeted on Aug. 1.
#DYK some think a stand-in was killed at the Biograph Theater instead of Dillinger?
If it sounds like a conspiracy theory, that’s because it is. A wealth of information supports Dillinger’s demise including 3 sets of fingerprints, all positively matched.
— FBI Chicago (@FBIChicago) August 1, 2019
