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A infografia descreve os momentos finais def John Dillinger, com detalhes sobre a exumação – complicada por uma barreira de betão.
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O túmulo fortificado de John Dillinger

By Ninian Carter

September 16, 2019 - Os restos do célebre assaltante de bancos John Dillinger vão ser
exumados no âmbito de um documentário do Canal História. John Dillinger foi abatido por agentes federais em Chicago em 1934 e sepultado sob 2,3 toneladas de betão para impedir o roubo do seu cadáver. Os teóricos da conspiração acrediram que foi morto um sósia e não Dillinger, e que o betão foi aplicado sobre o caixão para encobrir a troca.

The body of John H. Dillinger will be exhumed at an Indiana cemetery and reinterred on the same day. It will be a formidable task as the grave of the gangster, who was gunned down by federal agents outside a movie theatre in Chicago in 1934, has been fortified with a thick layer of concrete.

The family is reported to have fortified the grave at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis with three feet of concrete to prevent theft of the body. A woman who answered the phone at the cemetery told the New York Times that Dillinger fans regularly stop by the cemetery office to inquire where his grave is. Once they find it, they like to pay homage and decorate it with items that include carnations, coins and bullet shells, then post their photos online.

Much of Dillinger’s notoriety rests on his ability to evade federal agents for weeks following his escape from an Indiana jail in 1934, where he was held on a charge of killing a policeman.

His body lies beneath a granite pillow marker, engraved with raised block letters that spell out Dillinger’s name and “1903-1934.”

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PUBLISHED: 05/09/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: FBI, Associated Press
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