John Dillinger's Relatives Say They Have 'Evidence' The Buried Body May Not Be His
"I have been presented with evidence that demonstrates that the individual who was shot and killed ... may not in fact have been my uncle," his nephew, Mike Thompson, said in an affidavit.
This week's news that descendants of the notorious Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger planned to exhume his body prompted widespread head scratching.
Why, people wondered, after Dillinger's immediate family went to such great lengths to ensure the outlaw's body would never be disturbed — burying him under 3 feet of concrete — would his living relatives demand he be taken out of the ground?
The answer: They
