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GOOGLE IMAGES Lester J. Gillis AKA Baby Face Nelson worked for Al Capone, was arrested in 1931, but escaped and began a series of bank robberies, two with John Dillinger.

GOOGLE IMAGES Lester J. Gillis AKA Baby Face Nelson worked for Al Capone, was arrested in 1931, but escaped and began a series of bank robberies, two with John Dillinger.

March 29, 2020

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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.