Family Members Still Want To Know If Dillinger Is Really In His Grave

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INDIANAPOLIS  — Family members of 1930s gangster John Dillinger have submitted a new application to exhume his Indianapolis grave-site.

Dillinger’s family first applied to exhume the remains in July as part of a planned History Channel documentary which has since been canceled.

Family members have said they have evidence Dillinger’s body may not be buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, and that he may not have been the man FBI agents fatally shot outside a Chicago theater on July 22, 1934.

Cemetery officials object to the exhumation, saying it would be disruptive. Dillinger’s nephew, Michael C. Thompson, sued the cemetery last month, seeking a court order to gain access to the grave.

The Indiana State Department of Health said it received the latest application Tuesday.

A hearing is scheduled for October 1st.