An Indiana judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the nephew of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger, who sought to exhume his remains to prove someone else is buried at the Indianapolis gravesite. In his ruling, Marion County Superior Court Judge Timothy Oakes said Michael Thompson must get consent from Crown Hill Cemetery to dig up the remains. “The limited question before the Court today is whether disinterment may occur under this section of the statute without cemetery approval," Oakes wrote. Thompson sued the cemetery in August after it refused to let him exhume the grave as part of a History Channel documentary. The FBI said he was buried in Indiana after the fatal shooting.

Source: Fox News December 05, 2019 03:16 UTC