The Case of the Missing Coffin
Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, Chaplin suffered a number of strokes. The frail and wheelchair-bound entertainer spent the last years of his life residing by Lake Geneva in Switzerland, with his fourth wife, Oona. On Christmas Day, 1977, the actor died peacefully in his sleep at his Corsier-sur-Vevey home. He was 88 years old.
Grave of Charlie Chaplin, Vevey, Switzerland. Photo By Armando Pietrangeli/Shutterstock
Then, on March 2, 1978, 51-year-old Oona thought her husband was resting in peace when she got a phone call from the police informing her that there had been a burglary in the middle of the night, and Chaplin’s coffin was missing.