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- On July 22, 1934, local and federal law-enforcement officers closed in on the Biograph Theater. When BOI agents moved to arrest Dillinger as he exited the theater, he attempted to flee, but was fatally shot; the lethal use of force by the agents would eventually be ruled justifiable homicide.
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Jul 20, 2022 · An autopsy on John Dillinger's body was performed a day after his death. However, the autopsy report had gone missing for 50 years before it was found at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office inside a brown paper bag in 1984.
- Jean Mendoza
Jul 21, 2019 · On July 22, 1934, American gangster John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie "Manhattan Melodrama" with two female companions.
- John Dillinger’s Early Life and Petty Crimes
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- The Final Tip That Led to John Dillinger’s Death
- The Aftermath of John Dillinger’s Death
John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He grew up in the Oak Hill neighborhood, a middle class town where his father worked as a grocer. As PBSnotes, Dillinger’s father was alternatively severe and indulgent with his son, sometimes beating him or locking him in the house, and sometimes giving him candy and permis...
On May 10, 1933, John Dillinger was released from prison. A little more than a month later, he robbed his first bank, the New Carlisle National Bank in Ohio, and stole $10,000 from the bank’s vault. Dillinger and several of his accomplices went on to rob four banks, two grocery stores, and a drug store, absconding with more than $40,000 in just fou...
Following a near miss in Wisconsin, federal agents received a tip that changed everything. According to the FBI, the Romanian-born madam of a brothel named Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas) contacted agents on July 21, 1934, claiming to have information about John Dillinger. She told them that she was planning to attend a movie with Dillinger the...
By the time John Dillinger died in July 1934, he’d become both beloved and reviled in the United States. Some saw him as a good-for-nothing criminal, but others considered him something of a Depression-era folk hero. “Why should the law have wanted John Dillinger?” one man wrote to a newspaper in Indianapolis, according to The New York Times. “He w...
- Austin Harvey
The body of bank robber John Dillinger is put on display in a Chicago morgue after he is shot to death by the FBI and police. Photo shows people filing past a window which displays John Dillinger's corpse on a tilted table.
Photos 4 of John Dillinger, an American bank robber, auto thief, and fugitive. The Dillinger Gang was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations between 1933 and 1934.
John Herbert Dillinger (/ ˈdɪlɪndʒər /; June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice.
Oct 25, 2024 · According to the Mob Museum, Dillinger’s body received many visitors while in the morgue, including those who wanted to make a death mask. Four masks are believed to have been made, including the one you see above. The funeral home director noted that Dillinger’s face was missing facial hair and skin from all the molds.
