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Dillinger, John Herbert

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Dillinger, John Herbert (1903–1934)

US bank robber and murderer. In 1923 he was convicted of armed robbery and spent the next ten years in state prison. Released in 1933, he led a gang on a robbery spree throughout the Midwest, staging daring raids on police stations to obtain guns. Named ‘Public Enemy Number One’ by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dillinger led the authorities on a long chase. He was finally betrayed by his mistress, the mysterious ‘Lady in Red’, and was killed by FBI agents in Chicago as he left a cinema.

Born in Indianapolis, Dillinger began a life of crime after deserting from the navy 1920.



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