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- LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 17 — The body of Charlie Chaplin was recovered today in a cornfield about 10 miles from its burial place in the Swiss village cemetery at Corsier‐sur‐Vevey, at the eastern end of Lake Geneva, after being stolen 11 weeks ago.
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May 16, 2023 · Chaplin body found LAUSANNE, May 17 – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin and body, stolen from his grave 10 weeks ago, have been recovered. A Pole and a Bulgarian have been arrested.
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Nov 13, 2009 · After a five-week investigation, police arrested two auto mechanics—Roman Wardas, of Poland, and Gantscho Ganev, of Bulgaria—who on May 17 led them to Chaplin’s body, which they had...
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17 May. The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin - missing since his grave was robbed 11 weeks ago - has been found. It was dug up from a field about a mile away from the Chaplin...
Dec 12, 2019 · It was found two-and-a-half months later, buried in a cornfield beside Lake Geneva, and returned to its original resting place – this time in a theft-proof concrete tomb.
Mar 2, 2015 · Three months earlier, her husband Charlie Chaplin—the British star of silent films and early “talkies”—had died peacefully at their home near Corsier-sur-Vevey, by Lake Geneva in ...
Mar 1, 2023 · A stolen coffin and $600k ransom: Why two men robbed Charlie Chaplin’s grave Forty-five years ago, in March of 1978, the illustrious filmmaker’s coffin disappeared from the cemetery at Corsier ...
Mar 2, 2019 · O n 2 March, 1978, Charlie Chaplin’s corpse went missing. Chaplin, who spent his last years in the bucolic Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey with his wife Oona and their eight children, had died the previous Christmas aged 88.
