Relatives of American gangster John Dillinger are planning on having his body exhumed to " prove " that it is n’t him .
John Dillinger was a mobster far-famed for a string of up to 24 bank robberies in the thirties with his group , known as the Dillinger Gang , as well as several successful escape from prison . His activity were used by J. Edgar Hoover – in his purpose as film director of the Bureau of Investigation – to campaign for the foundation of the FBI .
At around 10.40pm on July 22 , 1934 , Dillinger was frivol away and killed by FBI broker in an skittle alley outside a film theatre in Chicago . harmonise to the autopsy , the bullet that kill Dillinger entered through the back of his cervix , severed his spinal cord , and go past into his brain and then exit under his right center , lop two sets of veins and arteries in the process .
Before burial , his eubstance was publicly displayed at the Cook County morgue , where around 15,000 people flocked to view it thanks to his infamy . He was buried in concrete and bit atomic number 26 in an Indianapolis cemetery , so as not to be disturbed by vandals , CBS News reports .
His demise has been surrounded by confederacy theory for years , however , with many the great unwashed claiming the man in the grave is not who the FBI says he is . Before his death , Dillinger had dyed his haircloth , grow a mustache , had plastic surgery on his face , andburned his fingerprints off using acidin social club to stop himself from being name by the constabulary . What cabal theorist could withstand ?
Several of Dillinger ’s posterity – Carol Thompson Griffith and her brother Mike Thompson – are attempting to get his trunk exhumed for DNA testing , 85 years after his death . The two , whowill be participate in a documentary film about Dillinger ’s death , say they have newfangled evidence that he is not the man in the grave .
" I have been presented with evidence that present that the individual who was shot and down at the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22 , 1934 may not in fact have been my uncle , John H. Dillinger,“Mike Thompson and Carol Thompson Griffith statein affidavit .
" It is critical to acquire whether Dillinger populate beyond his reported day of the month of death of July 22 , 1934 . If he was not killed on that appointment , I am interested in discovering what happened to him .
" This evidence include the non - mates of his centre color , the pinna shape and protrusion from the head teacher , the fingerprints not matching , the existence of a heart condition , and the apparent non - mates of the prior tooth .
" It is my belief and opinion that if the FBI shoot down the wrong gentleman outside Biograph Theater , it is also important to key out the man in the grave at Crown Hill Cemetary . "
The FBI responded to the claim , send for the idea that they shot a sales booth - in for Dillinger a " myth " and stating that " a wealth of information back up Dillinger ’s demise , " include his mutilated fingerprints , harmonize to AP .
The body is expected to be exhumed and re - buried in September , CBS News report .
