I found this on a random site describing what Kaufman says happened. If this is true, then the rumor appears to be just that, as his body is no longer there.
Keeping his promise, Kaufman and a crony stole Parsons' body from a local airport, took it to the Cap Rock formation in Joshua Tree National Monument, and torched it. It wasn't a smooth heist, as Kaufman recalls. "Things didn't go quite like we planned it, it was sort of like an episode of 'Laurel and Hardy steal the stiff.'" They got caught and arrested. Parsons' partially burned remains were transported to family members and interred in a New Orleans cemetery.
Here's the source for this, it's a few years old, but until now, it doesn't appear anything's changed.
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