It fill more than two weeks after Boston Marathon grinder Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed tofind a grave for his eubstance . Both Boston MayorThomas Meninoand Cambridge City ManagerRobert Healyhad said they would not give up the body to be swallow up within their cities ’ limits and the funeral director struggled to find a necropolis elsewhere .
It ’s not exactly surprising that no one wanted the body . Aside from the distaste that add up from induce a terrorist eat up next to someone ’s charitable grandmother , there was legitimate concern that a tomb like Tsarnaev ’s could appeal Vandal , dissent , admiring jihadists or other interruption . ( Tsarnaev ’s final resting lieu has not been disclosed . )
Tsarnaev is n’t the first public enemy to run into this trouble . After Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to end , Congress give lawmaking thatbarredmilitary veterans who had been convict of capital letter crime ( for instance McVeigh ) from burial in military burial ground . McVeigh ’s clay were cremate , and scattered at an undisclosed fix by his lawyer . Terrorist Osama bin Laden was buried at ocean after his domicile commonwealth Saudi Arabiarefusedto repatriate his body .
After WWII , the Soviets worried that Adolf Hitler ’s body , which the Red Army had found partially cremated outside theFührerbunker , would attract neo - Nazis and any unsecured gravesite would quickly be turned into a shrine . The KGB decided to destroy the remains and dispose of them in mysterious , and three agents finish burning the soundbox in the German Wood andscatteredthe ashes in the malarkey .
The family of Leon Czolgosz , who kill President William McKinley in 1901 , want the assassin ’s dead body turned over to them , but government official refused and opted to demolish it alternatively . drive some divine guidance fromWalter White ’s playbook , they buried Czolgosz in the prison house where he was executed , in a coffin filled with quicklime and sulphuric acid , which destroyed the corpse .
In some cases , one military personnel ’s trash is another ’s hoarded wealth , and disposing of a defeat bad guy has n’t been very hard . The bodies of the five Palestinian terrorist killed by German police during the 1972Munich massacrewere turned over to Libya , where they were recognise by adore crowds andburiedwith full military honors .
