Was Gram Parsons' Body Stolen After His Death?

So was The Byrds band member Gram Parsons body stolen? Well check this out...during the funeral ceremony for his close friend Clarence White, Gram was overheard stating that when he died he would like to be taken out to The Joshua Tree desert of southern California and burned. After Gram died while at The Joshua Tree Inn, his body was taken to the LA International Airport in preparation for being flown to Louisiana for burial. Gram's road manager Phil Kaufman and a friend, Michael Martin, got very intoxicated, borrowed a broken down hearse and drove to LAX to retrieve the body. When they arrived, they told the shipping clerk that Gram's remains were to be sent out of another airport, flashed some fake paperwork and falsely signed for the body. After crashing into a wall and almost being arrested, Phil, Michael and Gram drove back to The Joshua Tree Desert, stopping only to buy more beer and a container of gasoline. They took Gram's remains into the desert, poured the gasoline inside the coffin and set him afire. The two were arrested several days later and fined $700.00 for stealing and burning the coffin (it was is not against the law to steal a dead body). Gram's partially burned remains were finally laid to rest in a cemetery near New Orleans.