John Dillinger

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John Dillinger (1903-1934) was a gangster, murderer and bank-robber in the Depression-era United States^[1].

Dillinger was born into a middle-class family in Indianapolis but was a disturbed adolescent, getting into trouble with the police, and deserting the Navy after a short period of enlistment. In the mid 1920s he was convicted of a botched store robbery and served eight and a half years in prison. On his release in May 1933 he embarked on the criminal rampage that was to ensure his fame. He robbed a bank in Buffalo, Ohio, was arrested, and then 'sprung' from custody by associates in the course of which a sheriff was killed. After several further bank robberies (during which two police officers were killed) Dillinger and several associates were arrested in Tucson, Arizona, in January 1934; in March, he broke out of prison in Indiana using a fake gun (carved from wood) to take prison officers hostage. After an extensive search Dillinger was traced to Chicago through information provided by a Romanian brothel madam. In return for assistance in avoiding deportation she told police of a planned assignation with Dillinger at a local cinema and agreed to wear a red dress to identify the group. On 22 July Dillinger was shot dead by FBI agents on leaving the Biograph Theater, after he had drawn a gun on the approaching officers.

In the period between September 1933 and July 1934 the Dillinger gang was responsible for ten murders. Despite this, Dillinger in particular has been portrayed as a charming and romantic 'Robin Hood' figure, most notably in the 1973 film Dillinger.