Casey Kasem’s unmarked grave in Norway revealed

Casey Kasem's grave site in Oslo, Norway. The radio icon was buried there against his children’s wishes earlier this month.TMZ.com Casey Kasem’s grave site in Oslo, Norway. The radio icon was buried there against his children’s wishes earlier this month.

Casey Kasem was finally laid to rest in Norway — and the heartbreaking photo of his final resting place highlights the radio icon’s sad, weird saga over the past year.

Kasem passed away in June at age 82, and a heated custody dispute between his widow, Jean, and his children over his remains resulted in the icon being buried six months later. Kasem was laid to rest Dec. 16 at Vestre Gravlund in Oslo, according to TMZ.

TMZ also uncovered the exact location of his grave, a desolate, unmarked site surrounded by headstones lit with candles.

Kasem’s daughter Kerri took to Twitter on Monday to share her anguish that Jean buried her father halfway across the world.

“This morning my family and I learned that my Dad’s abusive wife Jean Thompson Kasem and their daughter Liberty conned a cemetery in Norway into burying my Dad there,” she wrote.

“Even with ALL the letters, attached below, from my father’s friends and family stating that he wanted to be buried in the UNITED STATES, the country in which he was born and raised, his wishes were, once again, ignored by his unfaithful wife.”

Kerri, along with her attorney Jason Glucksman, appeared on “Excellent Day LA” Wednesday morning to speak about her father being buried in a foreign country.

She said that she was shocked when she learned about her father’s burial, which she got word of from the press.

OCT. 27, 2003 FILE PHOTOEric Jamison/AP The final resting place of Casey Kasem, pictured, has been found in Norway. Casey Kasem's grave  in Oslo, Norway.TMZ.com Casey Kasem’s grave  in Oslo, Norway.

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Kerri also said she had no plans to visit her father’s gravesite.

“(Jean) put him in the ground, we don’t even know if she was there (for the burial),” Kerri said. “It’s an unmarked grave. He’s thrown in Norway.”

When questioned what she imagined her father would think of the ongoing drama, she said he would want “justice.”

“He always fought for justice and to do the right thing,” she said. “Unfortunately in this case he didn’t do it for himself.”

“Casey was known for his historic voice, and he doesn’t have that voice anymore because of what’s been done,” Gluckman added.

The broadcasting legend passed away in June, but his body was left to languish for months as eldest daughter Kerri and her siblings fought with Jean Kasem, his wife of 34 years, for formal custody of their father’s remains.

Shortly after his death near Seattle on June 15, Jean Kasem went the body, first to Montreal and then Norway. The moves, the children said, were an attempt to evade their accusations of elder abuse.

In a November court filing, Kerri claimed Jean did not have the body embalmed before leaving the country, causing it to rot “significantly.”

Prior to the Kasem’s remains being shipped to Europe, Montreal officials “had to use three containers and then seal the box with caulk because the smell was so terrible,” Kerri said in the Nov. 7 filing.

In the months before his death, Kerri had been mired in a legal battle with her stepmother over visitation rights to see her father.

Weeks before his death, Kerri Kasem won a legal conservatorship over her dad, who was suffering from Lewy body dementia at the time of his death.

Kasem had reportedly wished to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in California, but Jean Kasem chose Norway instead because she claimed to have ancestral ties to the country.

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