The Unintentionally-Suggestive Post-Mortem Photograph of John Dillinger

Even in death, the Dillinger mystique was attributed with another larger-than-life quality when a post-mortem photograph suggested that he had an extraordinarily large penis. However, the official explanation for the anomaly is that, under the shrouding sheet, one of Dillinger's arms was locked into the suggestive position due to rigor mortis. So this "gun," too, while not being made of carved wood and shoe polish, was yet just another illusion.

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