Thirty-seven years ago, two men dug up and removed Charlie Chaplin’s coffin with his body still inside in an attempt to extort money from his widow Oona; they were later caught and convicted, and the legendary comedian was eventually re-buried in his original plot.


Just over 37 years ago, robbers snatched renown entertainer Charlie Chaplin’s corpse from his grave near Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
His fourth wife Oona was notified by police that her husband’s coffin with the body inside had been dug up and was missing.

The actor had died just months earlier on Christmas Day at the age of 88 and was buried two days later by their home.

The thieves eventually contacted her with a ransom demand of more than $600,000 for the return of his body and even made threats against their two younge