Guillermo Aillon; murderer veteran exhumed
In 1973, 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.
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.
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;
The remains of Guillermo Aillon were disinterred from the Middletown cemetery July 3, after state veterans’ 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’s not clear where the remains were taken.
According to the Post, the law has only been used one other time;
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.
Special dispensation from Congress authorized the exhumation before 2013;
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’ bill. Wagner killed an elderly couple in Hagerstown, Md., in 1994.
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.
Thanks to Chief Tango and David for the tip.
Category: Veterans Issues
Oh, I thought they were digging him up to give him one more swift kick in the nuts.
Does he even have any left?
I hope they leave the asshole out in the sun for the buzzards to enjoy! Hey, they gotta eat too??
Although I support digging up these dishonorable corpses, there is much more conjured up by the rationale behind it. (I previously misstated that McVeigh was Green Beret…he was not. Randy Weaver from the Ruby Ridge incident was, I conflated the two.) What disturbs me is his crime was so horrific and indefensible, history has deleted the reason he did it. McVeigh was motivated to do that unspeakable act because of acts by Government authorities. Ruby Ridge and Waco, Tx among them. During Ruby Ridge US Marshall Degan was the one who shot the 14 year old Sammy Weaver first and hit him in the arm. Larry Cooper then murdered Sammy Weaver by shooting the child in the back as he was running away from the Agents. Yep, thats right. Larry Cooper shot a 14 year old running away from him in the back and killed him. Another coward that should rot in hell. Degan was a US Marine veteran and was buried with full military Honors. Lon Horiuchi is the cowardly son of a bitch that killed Weavers wife. An unarmed woman guilty of holding a door open for her husband whom they had just shot. He will be a coward until the day he dies. Its gutless wonders like him, men who hide in the bushes and ambush women and children than should have went to jail. He is retired in HI, I bet anything he gets honors when he assumes room temperature. US Marshall Dave Hunt was the panicked gutless wonder who embellished and overstated what had initially happened in his hysterical rant to Federal Authorities. Dave Hunt was responsible for where the Agents were and what they were doing that day. His agents started throwing rocks at weavers dogs to see how they would react and draw them away from the house. They incited the reaction from the Weavers. Dave Hunt is responsible for Marshal Degan being killed. Again, he was never held accountable. Bet anything he will be buried with honors. Waco, TX is beyond explaining here. ATF and FBI authorities burned to death women and… Read more »
I was always fascinated by Plot E. When I was previously stationed in Europe, I was in a group of Sailors and Marines that placed wreaths and flags on each tombstone for Memorial Day.
Of course, that wasn’t going to happen in Plot E. In fact, when three of us asked to see Plot E, they tried to talk us out of it at length. The amazing thing about Plot E was the lack of names, just numbers, and you had to have the key to figure out which grave belonged to whom.
I think someone may of deciphered the code, but I’m not sure.
The names of those buried in plot E are in the office, you just have to find someone who will show them to you.
The only person I know of who was removed from there was Eddie Slovik.
A Chicago politico petitioned Reagan back in the 80’s and was people were allowed to, at private expense, dissenter, transport and plant Slovik in the US sans any military ceremony.
I’ve read through through some of the cases of those in Section E. Pretty much a lot of guys that raped and then killed their victims.
Scumbag Tim McVeigh was absolutely NOT a Green Beret!
He went to the Special Forces Assessment program and was deemed to be NOT Special Forces material.
You are right…I STAND CORRECTED ! Randy Weaver of the Ruby Ridge incident was Green Beret.
Thank you for pointing that out.
There is some question whether he was a green beret.
He only served in the Army for three years. The only pictures of him show him wearing the green beret without a flash. Which indicates he had not completed special forces training. There is no evidence he ever completed Robin Sage.
A lot of soldiers served in SF units and wore the green beret. In the era Randy Weaver served soldiers that were training to become “Green Berets” wore the green beret and a “candy stripe” – a flash cut into a single strip behind their unit crest. Those that were support soldiers did not wear a flash only the unit crest. Trained green berets wore a full flash being their unit crest.
McVeigh was a gunner on a Bradley, not a green beret. He caught the PTSD in Desert Storm, he says, because he saw Iraqis buried alive in their trenches. McVeigh was behind me in the order of battle (we were both in the 1st Infantry Division) and I didn’t see any Iraqis buried alive.
I remember Ruby Ridge and Waco vividly and was pissed beyond words. I didn’t blow up a daycare full of children because I was.
McVeigh’s actions are indefensible, he deliberately set out to cause a body count that would get attention. It did and he is dead.
Under the McVeigh Grave rules Plot E must be entirely dug up. I am sure I could find countless others that need the same done.
It does not escape me that the most deadly acts committed by our Government on American Citizens during my lifetime was carried out by a Democrat Administration and defended by Democrats in Congress, many of which are sadly still there.
I think GHW Bush was president during Ruby Ridge.
Here you go with all your facts and shit. I am still blaming it on Clinton and libtards. What are you? Some kind of commie lover? Never confuse me with facts when I have already made up my mind.
Wiki says AUG 1992.
I don’t know about shit happening that far back. Wasn’t that the Clinton era?
It was a few months before the ’92 Presidential election.
I don’t think the McVeigh grave rules would apply to plot E. After all, Plot E is in a segregated part of the cemetery. The backs of the honorable dead face the dishonored dead. Plot E isn’t accessible unless you go through an office.
No US Flags allowed, no appropriate headstones, no flowers or wreaths authorized. They mow it, and that’s about it.
The even sadder part about this was the story of Eddie Slovik. Even though his offense was desertion, they buried him with murderers and rapists.
THIS Plot E?
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/plot-e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oise-Aisne_American_Cemetery_Plot_E
If wasnt half a continent away…..and 10 yo at the time I would have gone and supported the Weavers. Using bullshit trumped minor gun charges as justification for terrorizing, then murdering part of a separatist family.
Those FBI spastics who shot a young boy and especially an unarmed woman with a baby in her arms, should have been jailed for life.
A imagine being an Ex-FBI in prison would be worse than execution.
But yeah……fuck McVeigh!
He should have been executed with a quad mount 14.5mm AA gun 😉
Turned into a greasy red stain
So, fake PTSD.
You know how in the Afgh of the Stan people sleep in rugs on the floor?
Well, I had a Soldier claim PTSD because while clearing a house during a night mission he stepped on a kid and crushed the kid’s head.
It was all bullshit. His battle buddy stepped on a kid’s hand and the kid started crying, that was it.
I remember reading about the burials and had no problem with it. Like the man said, there is no nice way to kill your enemy. No way of telling what McVeigh saw or not, but could it have been worse than the “Highway of Death” or even the death of one American soldier? As we know, PTSD is used to justify a whole range of misconduct.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/world/us-army-buried-iraqi-soldiers-alive-in-gulf-war.html
Arlington? Bullshit…. that is hallowed ground. Unmarked communal graves or a sub-sewage columbarium at a dump is more like it. They had no respect for others while alive, they deserve no respect when they are dead.
Good.
Here is Wargner’s info re: ANC.
http://arlingtoncemetery.net/rwwagner.htm
On the 4th of Jan 2007 a new soldier was interred in that same spot after being empty for about a week.
Good.
Too bad they weren’t able to do what was done to Oliver Cromwell back in 1661.
https://eotd.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/30-january-1661-oliver-cromwell-posthumously/
What’s the real story with McVeigh?
Was he really a 11B?
Did get to shoot some Iraqis in Desert Storm?
Did he get shot at?
Did he get his CIB?
What about any ASI, like Sniper or Recon?
He was an 11M and a Bradley gunner in Desert Storm. He probably got a CIB.
I don’t know how it worked for gunners in 1ID, but in 3AD, you got your CIB and a hand shake.
it’s like we got paid to do that job or something…
The COWARD McVeigh served as an 11B at Ft. Riley before he made himself one of the biggest cowards in American History.
I am going to offer a suggestion, that in the long run it is perhaps best to least the dead rest.
People change. Culture changes. What is considered good and proper almost always changes.
Sooner or later, the “dig em’ up” law will be applied retroactively to almost anyone who is out of favor this year.
Imagine the worst idiots of the late sixties and early seventies, demanding the dis-interment of all who fought in “illegal wars”.
Will the future judges demand the mass removal of the Confederate dead?
Will they demand the removal of those who fought in the current fracas?
Let the dead rest. Lest we tear apart what good we can gain from tradition and custom as we mature as a species.
We may spare indignities to a few dickheads who were mis-buried on hallowed ground, but we will be protecting the millions who served, from the wrath of future dickheads
Let the dead rest. Whatever momentary sense of balance may be achieved from applying the shovel, no long-term good can come from this “dig em up” law.
Convicted murderers (mass murderer in McVeigh’s case), rapists and others convicted of high crimes should not be honored and do not deserve to share the same soil with the honored dead who have sacrificed.
Also–I disagree with keeping the occupants of Plot E hidden–they deserve the perpetual shame.
11B, to your point above regarding Confederate dead, I can guarantee that that’s where the SJW howler monkeys will go if they continue to be successful with the removal of Confederate monuments.
Are they all registered demacrats?
Why are they in a cemetery at all? The local landfill ought to have been good enough.
Another Hoser
question…….
In the USA, can certain awards( MOH, NC, BStr, SlvrStr) be revoked if the wearer commits a horrible crime?
George V stated that a man who has earned the VC, has the right to wear it till the end, even on the gallows.