By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Relatives of notorious American gangster John Dillinger believe they have evidence that their bank robbing uncle was not shot by the FBI at a theater in Chicago in 1934.
Now they want to exhume the body buried under the headstone at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis to determine whether it belongs to Dillinger. They plan to conduct DNA tests.
That plan hit a snag after Dillinger’s nephew, Mike Thompson, filed a suit to prevent the cemetery from interfering with plans to exhume the body. A court hearing is set for Oct. 1, but the state issued a permit that set a deadline for exhumation about two weeks earlier.
“Per the approved application, if the exhumation does occur, it must occur on Sept. 16,” an Indiana State Department of Health official told CNN.
Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover declared Dillinger as “Public Enemy No. 1” after his gang killed at least 10 people, robbed banks and even staged three jailbreaks from 1933 to 1934.
Last month, 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.
#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
