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Even in death Charlie Chaplin had little peace. Such was the price of his celebrity that his remains were dug up and ransomed back to the family. Chaplin died on Dec. 25, 1977, in Switzerland. He was 88 years old. On March 2, 1978, his coffin (with him in it) was dug up and spirited away. His remains were recovered by Swiss police on May 17, 1978. Two Eastern European political refugees confessed to the crime. They described how they took Chaplin's oak coffin from the village cemetery at Corsier-sur-Vevey and buried it in a shallow hole in the cornfield near Villeneive, about 10 miles away at the eastern tip of Lake Geneva. According to a 1978 news report on the crime:
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