Dillinger's Dong: #1 Public Enemy or Out with the Penis Envy, In with the Penis Naiveté!

DO male corpses get erections when they go through rigor mortis? historically infamous Schlong Controversy.

John Herbert Dillinger (1903–1934) was a bank robber in the Midwest during the 1930s. Some considered him a dangerous criminal, while others idolized him as a present-day Robin Hood. Along with Bonnie and Clyde, he dominated the attention of the American press during what is referred to as the 'public enemy era' (1931-1935), which led to the development of the modern and more sophisticated F.B.I.. Dillinger was believed to have robbed dozens of banks of a total of more than $300,000. He was killed by the F.B.I. outside of a theater on July 22, 1934.

Not there yet... Interestingly enough, there is some speculation over whether or not it was really Dillinger who was gunned down on that day. Apparently, he had undergone the "Mickey Rourke"(a.k.a. crude plastic surgery 1930's style) sometime before his death which complicates things. But some researchers and crime writers believe the man who died that day was actually a petty criminal from Wisconsin named Jimmy Lawrence, whose name Dillinger was using as a pseudonym and who resembled Dillinger. Damn, that sucks. People who knew Dillinger said they didn't recognize the body when they saw it. Even Dillinger's dad said "That's not my boy!" when he went to see the corpse. This is some Changeling shit. And lastly, if the FBI did mistake Lawrence for Dillinger, they would have covered it up because Hoover was about to be fired as FBI director and needed a saving grace; also people love a good solved crime.

The autopsy was super whack and controversial:

• The corpse had brown eyes. Dillinger's were grey.
• The body showed signs of some childhood illness which Dillinger never had.
• The body showed a heart condition yet according to the later testimony of Dr. Patrick Weeks—Dillinger could not have suffered from this disease as he was a baseball player and had served in the Navy.
• The small Colt semi-automatic pistol that Dillinger had allegedly drawn on the FBI agents was not his; it had been manufactured five months after his death, which supports the claim that the FBI agents, without warning, shot and killed an unarmed Dillinger.
• In 1963, an Indiana newspaper received a letter from a person who claimed to be "John Dillinger" with a return address in Hollywood, California. The letter contained a photo of a man who looked like a more aged Dillinger.

NOW One of the rumors that followed his death, resulting from a photograph of his corpse, was that he had a HUGE D. And that Herbert Hoover kept it in a jar. Others reported that Dillinger's penis had found its way into the Smithsonian. Tales of John Dillinger's legendary peen spread like blood flowing to a boner, and now hold a pretty sweet place in the book of American urban legends.

the bulge was apparently caused by his arm, stiff from rigor mortis and covered with a sheet.

WHATEVS.