At the request of his family, Great Depression-era gangster John Dillinger will be exhumed from the Indianapolis grave where he was buried in 1934 after being shot down by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. There’s been no official explanation for the request, however the dig should resolve a couple of pieces of Dillinger folklore. The first would be whether it’s him in the grave at all—an urban legend that the FBI shot the wrong man has simmered since his death. And the second would be whether there’s a cock attached to the corpse—a particularly odd legend suggests that Dillinger had a monster member that was somehow snipped before burial and whisked away by a morbid collector.
The rumor of body part theft is no surprise. Grave robberies had been a problem in the U.S. throughout the 1800s, and while these had waned by 1934, as a precaution Dillinger was buried under scrap iron and slabs of concrete covered by a layer of poured cement. The bit about him being hung like a mule is harder to trace. Some say it was caused by a morgue photo which appeared (if you really used your imagination) 
to show him with an erection, but being the subject of at least one Tijuana bible certainly didn’t hurt either. In the dirty comic “A Hasty Exit,” which we think was published in mid-1934 before his death, Dillinger uses a massive unit to pleasure his girlfriend Evelyn Frechette and her pal Nellie. Of course, everyone in Tijuana bibles had dinosaur dicks, but we’re speculating here.
It’s possible the public won’t find out why Dillinger is being
brought back above ground (though DNA testing to prove ancestry seems like a good bet), or whether all the famed gangster’s parts are intact. We doubt most people actually care. But for us pulp followers the story is somewhat interesting, because Dillinger is an icon of the pulp era.
to show him with an erection, but being the subject of at least one Tijuana bible certainly didn’t hurt either. In the dirty comic “A Hasty Exit,” which we think was published in mid-1934 before his death, Dillinger uses a massive unit to pleasure his girlfriend Evelyn Frechette and her pal Nellie. Of course, everyone in Tijuana bibles had dinosaur dicks, but we’re speculating here.It’s possible the public won’t find out why Dillinger is being
brought back above ground (though DNA testing to prove ancestry seems like a good bet), or whether all the famed gangster’s parts are intact. We doubt most people actually care. But for us pulp followers the story is somewhat interesting, because Dillinger is an icon of the pulp era.As a bonus, the story has also served as a reminder that we have many more filthy Tijuana bibles we need to upload. We’ll get to that as soon as we can. In the meantime, while we all wait for that September exhumation to finally settle longstanding urban legends, you can satisfy your historical interest in John Dillinger by exhuming his Tijuana bible here.
