{"id":74008,"date":"2017-08-14T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74008"},"modified":"2017-08-14T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:28:51","slug":"guillermo-aillon-murderer-veteran-exhumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74008","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Aillon; murderer veteran exhumed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1973<\/a>, Guillermo Aillon, 35 years old, a veteran, was convicted of murder for killing his wife, Barbara, and her parents, J. George and Bernice Montano. He was sentenced to seventy years in prison, but he only lived long enough to serve forty years. He was buried in Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery. <\/p>\n

In 1997, Congress passed a new law that barred veterans convicted of capital crimes and serving death or life sentences from being buried in veterans’ cemeteries. It was written especially for Tim McVeigh. Aillon escaped scrutiny when he was transferred to a hospital before he died and the death certificate didn’t mention that he had been in prison. Well, that’s what they say – it took me two minutes to find the 1972 article about his murder conviction.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until 2013 that Congress authorized the VA to disinter the remains of criminals, but the law has been used to disinter Aillon, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The remains of Guillermo Aillon were disinterred from the Middletown cemetery July 3, after state veterans\u2019 affairs officials learned that he had been serving a life prison sentence for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and her parents in North Haven in 1972. It\u2019s not clear where the remains were taken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Post, the law has only been used one other time;<\/p>\n

In 2014, the body of Army veteran Michael LeShawn Anderson was removed from the Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Mich. Authorities said Anderson killed Alicia Koehl, wounded three other people and killed himself in a 2012 shooting in Indianapolis. The 2013 law, named after Koehl, specifically authorized the exhumation of Anderson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Special dispensation from Congress authorized the exhumation before 2013;<\/p>\n

The remains of another veteran convicted of murder, Russell Wayne Wagner, were removed from Arlington National Cemetery under an order approved by Congress in 2006 as part of a veterans\u2019 bill. Wagner killed an elderly couple in Hagerstown, Md., in 1994.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the Post, Anderson was buried with full military honors, but he was never convicted of his crime, because he cheated the state out of justice by killing himself.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango and David for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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