The very idea of disturbing the dead has been a source of angst and spooky entertainment for much of recorded history. And members of Dublin’s city council are hatching a plot to dig up and repatriate James Joyce’s remains from Zurich, where the Irish author died. This month, a Spanish court approved a plan to exhume the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from a public monument and rebury them in a private cemetery. Dillinger’s niece and nephew say they have evidence that his eye color and fingerprints differ from those of the body inside the grave - a notion the FBI, whose agents gunned down the fearsome leader of the Dillinger Gang in 1934, labeled a “conspiracy theory.”ĭillinger isn’t the only historical figure with one foot out of the grave. Relatives of the infamous Midwestern gangster, who robbed banks and police stations, stole cars, and repeatedly escaped prison, are embroiled in a legal battle to open his casket, which they believe stores the body of an imposter. John Dillinger’s body - or that of his unlucky lookalike - may soon be unearthed.
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