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Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police days after the bombing. Tsarnaev's remains were accepted "by an interfaith coalition" in Doswell, Virginia, his uncle Ruslan Tsarni told CNN. Take a look at some infamous figures' final resting places:
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Lee Harvey Oswald was buried -- on the same day as President John F. Kennedy -- in Rose Hill Burial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. His brother remembers hoping to have "private moments" at the funeral but arrived to learn that news reporters had carried his brother's casket to the grave, which was mobbed with police and Secret Service agents. Oswald's tombstone would later be stolen. It was replaced with a simpler version. In 1981, his body was exhumed to determine if the body was actually Oswald's. It was. Oswald was re-buried and the damaged coffin was auctioned off for $87,468.
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After killing President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, John Wilkes Booth was fatally shot himself. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton initially ordered that the assassin be buried in a blanket in the Old Penitentiary at Washington Arsenal. In 1867, he was exhumed and put in a pine box and buried in a locked storeroom, according to Find A Grave. In 1869, he was exhumed again. His body was returned to his family, who buried him in an unmarked grave at a family plot in Baltimore.
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The proceedings of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of murdering Charles Lindbergh Jr., was considered the trial of the century. While only 30 people, including his widow, showed up for his 1936 eulogy and cremation, a crowd of 1,000 gathered outside. It was reported that his widow, who said he was innocent until her own death in 1994, wanted to return his ashes to Germany. A 1937 newspaper story said they were still at the crematory in Maspeth, New York, a year later. Their final resting place is unknown.
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The Billy the Kid Museum at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, attracts thousands of visitors a year, drawn to the notorious gunslinger's exploits. The Kid, whose real name was William Bonney, is supposedly buried at Fort Sumner, where legend has it he was fatally shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett. Another legend, however, says Bonney is not buried there and that he changed his name to "Brushy" Bill Roberts and disappeared in Texas.
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Al Capone, the Chicago bootlegger and gangster, was originally buried at the city's Mount Olivet Cemetery after his 1947 death. He shared a tombstone there with his brother and father. When his mother died in 1952, his body was moved to a plot alongside hers at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, because the former plot had become too much of a tourist attraction.
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Though he was electrocuted in 1989 for three murders he committed in Florida, Ted Bundy had prolonged his life by confessing to other murders in other states. The convicted serial killer told Washington police that four of his female victims were dumped on Taylor Mountain in the state's Cascade range, the Los Angeles Times reported. After his execution, Bundy's remains were spread over that same mountain range, per his request.
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Timothy McVeigh originally requested that his ashes be spread at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, the site that commemorates the 168 people he killed in 1995 with a 7,000-pound truck bomb. But he later wrote that that would be "too raw, cold." After his 2001 execution, his ashes were given to his attorney, who spread them at an undisclosed location.
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Idi Amin, the "Butcher of Uganda," brutally ruled the African nation from 1971-1979 before going into exile in Saudi Arabia. He never returned to Uganda and died in 2003 in Jeddah, where he was later buried. A tourism promotions group in Uganda earlier this year requested his remains be returned so they could be included as part of a tourist attraction.
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According to media reports, the cremation site of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader who killed hundreds of thousands in the late 1970s, is on display in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Visitors pay $2 to see the spot where he was cremated, news reports say.
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After Osama bin Laden's secret burial at sea, President Barack Obama said the United States would not release images of the al Qaeda leader's last rites because it could incite violence and risk lives. The United States said bin Laden was buried in accordance with Muslim tradition, despite a claim to the contrary by his lieutenant.
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When BBC presenter Jimmy Savile died, prior to numerous allegations of wanton pedophilia being made public, he was beloved, and his 6-foot-tall, $6,000 gravestone -- bearing the gold inscription, "It was good while it lasted" -- stood as testament. After the allegations, however, the granite headstone was vandalized, and his family had it destroyed to maintain the "dignity" of the Scarborough, United Kingdom, cemetery, British newspapers reported. There was talk of cremating or moving Savile to a secret location, though did not come to fruition.
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Union leader and organized crime boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from a restaurant parking lot in a Detroit suburb in 1975 and was declared legally dead in 1982. In 2001, the FBI linked Hoffa to a car that was suspected of being used in his disappearance. In 2004, authorities searched a Detroit home to no avail. In 2006, the feds razed a horse barn in Michigan, and last year they drilled at a home in Roseville, outside Detroit. No leads have yielded a body and the infamous figure's final resting place remains famously unknown.
