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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover assigned a team to hunt down John Dillinger after the mobster broke federal law by crossing state lines in a stolen vehicle.

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Story of John Dillinger, J. Edgar Hoover and the Lady in Red
March 29, 2020 1 a.m.

Story of John Dillinger, J. Edgar Hoover and the Lady in Red

John Herbert Dillinger was one of America’s most famous criminals in the 1930s, a group that included Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. He was only 31 when the FBI got him in a shootout coming out of a movie theater and betrayed by his landlady.