Authorities in Boston have said that the body of the alleged bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is not welcome there.
Now a controversy is brewing about where the deceased suspect should go.
Gary Tuchman takes a look at the surprisingly difficult ordeal of burying the notorious.
Protesters are putting on the pressure, picketing outside a funeral home near Boston to say don't bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev here.
One sign says, "Bury the garbage in the landfill."
The funeral home director who currently has the body isn't sure what he should do next.
What do we do with this guy?
One alternative: cremation.
Some of America's most notorious criminals, like Timothy McVeigh, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, were cremated.
Serial killer Bundy's ashes were scattered in an undisclosed location in Washington State.
The ashes of serial child killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, who was beaten to death by an inmate, were shared between his parents.
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who was executed, in the federal death chamber in Indiana, had his ashes scattered in an undisclosed location by his lawyer.
And further back in history, there's Adolf Hitler.
After he killed himself in 1945, his body was burned by Soviet forces, leaving no trace.
But for a Muslim, cremation is not an option, according to experts.
Cremation is not only not allowed, but it's actually forbidden.
So cremation would mean that something happened to this man which would be outside the bonds of Islam itself and that would be controversial certainly in some circles.
Another possibility: burial at sea. That was used for Osama bin Laden after he was killed by U.S. Special Forces.
The advantage: no marked grave, nowhere for protesters or supporters to find him, which brings us back to burial.
After the execution of Saddam Hussein, he was buried, but in relatively friendly territory near his hometown of Tikrit.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Lincoln, is buried in the family plot in Baltimore, although his resting place is not individually marked.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President Kennedy, is buried in a marked grave in Ft. Worth, Texas, but he hasn't exactly rested in peace.
His original tombstone was stolen and his original coffin was auctioned.
And then there's a strange case of another horrible man,
John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing at least 33 boys and young men in the Chicago area.
His family has always been ambiguous about whether he was cremated or buried. And to this day, it's still not publicly known.