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Most retellings of Elvis Presley's funeral stop at the hearse pulling out of Graceland's gates on 18 August 1977. That's usually where the story ends: eighty thousand mourners lining Elvis Presley Boulevard, a white suit, a Cadillac procession, a nation stopped in its tracks. What most of them leave out is that Elvis didn't stay buried where he was buried. Nine days after the funeral, three men tried to steal his body out of its tomb, and the break-in that followed changed where the King of...

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