A request to exhume the remains of infamous US gangster John Dillinger has been approved by officials in Indiana.

Dillinger’s relatives have been pressing for the permit, saying an imposter is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, according to BBC report.

The FBI says its agents shot dead the gangster in Chicago in 1934, and he was then buried in Indiana’s state capital.

The disinterment is now planned for 31 December 2019 – but the cemetery is fighting the decision in court.

Dillinger’s nephew Michael Thompson and another family member say they believe that the FBI “killed the wrong man” at Chicago’s Biograph Theater in 1934.

They say they have evidence that the imposter in the grave has different eye colour and fingerprints.

The FBI has dismissed such arguments as “a conspiracy theory”.

In a tweet in August, the FBI said it had “a wealth of information” proving that Dillinger was indeed shot dead in Chicago.

Who was John Dillinger?

Dillinger, who escaped from jail twice, was described according to BBC as “Public Enemy No.1” in the 1930s – the Great Depression era in the US.

A $10,000 bounty was placed on his head.

He led the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of carrying out a string of bank robberies.

In 2009, Public Enemies, a biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann, was released.

It details the final years of Dillinger (played by Jonny Depp), and the birth of the modern-day FBI.

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Exhuming the corpse now will do what please? Can the colour of the eyeball and fingerprints be ascertained now because I know it's only skeleton they will found there.

Crazy right

just negodu the year the thing happened.

After that, also go and exume Tupac too...

Oyinbo people sometimes sef....

Abeg let the sleeping Dog be.

they might be right! am curious too, i want to know

Some funny news wey we dey hear from these Oyinbo sha. When we think anything funny and crazy comes from Africa then you hear this.

The FBI that shot him is obviously no more after 87 yrs, those that buried him are all dead, am sure the eyes and fingerprints can’t be traced, so why the waste of time and disturbing the peace of the dead ?

America make una leave us oo, we have enough to worry about already in Africa

They should hurry up because we want to see the outcome of this exercise.