CNN) Is the notorious American gangster John Dillinger really buried at a cemetery in Indiana? That's the question his relatives want answered.
But now their plans to exhume his body have hit a roadblock.
Mike and Carol Thompson, Dillinger's nephew and niece, respectively, filed for a a permit to exhume his body his body in July with the Indiana State Department of Health.
In the affidavit for the permit, they cited that they have evidence the person shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934, "may not in fact have been" Dillinger. They planned on exhuming his body to conduct DNA tests and then re-inter into the grave site.
The permit was granted by the department of health and it was set that Dillinger would be exhumed on September 16 at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.
The History Channel was even set to film the exhumation as part of a documentary.
Now less than a week from the dig, a lawsuit filed by Mike Thompson against the cemetery is halting the project.
Last Wednesday, Thompson's lawyer filed a proposed motion with the Marion County court saying that the cemetery is not to interfere with plans to exhume Dillinger. A hearing in that case is set for October 1, weeks past the permitted date set by the state.
"Per the approved application, if the exhumation does occur, it must occur on Sept. 16," Megan Wade-Taxter with the Indiana State Department of Health told CNN.
CNN reached out to Crown Hill Cemetery for comment but one wasn't immediately available.
On August 14, the cemetery stated that they object to the exhumation and that they have a duty to protect the integrity of the cemetery.
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