Just to relate a story I have, (I'm NO war hero, and I can't put this in the same class as what the family involved went though) I was in a bad car crash a few years ago, and the first 36 hours in the hospital was touch go (I could have died)...well, someone involved stole my watch. The EMT's said they gave it to the nurses and the nurses say they never got it (my wallet keys where all their)...but even after a thorough "investigation" it never turned up. It just goes to show you, "you can never tell about people."
I feel really bad for the family...and the human race in general.
If they do I hope there will be a full page photograph in every newspaper, and posters bearing his image all over his home town, as well as TV coverage. What's the betting it was an opportunist drug addict?