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There’s a chance Ted Hinton’s car stories, especially the gravel truck episode, were apocryphal. He told them in a 1978 book, Ambush, published shortly after his death.

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Today the site lies just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

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Touhy would be convicted the following February of the Jake Factor kidnapping.

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These conversations are taken from the Karpis transcripts.

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After his parole, Van Meter lingered around East Chicago. He met Nelson in Indiana Harbor, and FBI files indicate he bunked with both Dillinger and Nelson for periods that summer. Eager to flee Indiana, where he felt police knew him, Van Meter followed Nelson to St. Paul and signed on for anything he planned.

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Nelson had visited the Texas city twice already that summer to buy guns from a gunsmith named Heinie Leibman. Eddie Bentz had introduced them.

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Chuck Fisher gave the San Antonio police nothing. “All I got out of him you could put in your eye and not get hurt,” the city’s police commissioner told reporters. Fisher was sent to Leavenworth on an outstanding robbery warrant, where he told the FBI nothing, too. Not for four more months would anyone realize Nelson had been in San Antonio.

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Born in Falls Church, Virginia, in 1901, Tyler M. Birch joined the Bureau just two months before the Underhill shooting. He resigned from the FBI in 1938, fought in World War II and the Korean War, and died in December 1981 at the age of eighty.

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Dillinger’s cross-country drive may not have been uneventful. According to FBI files, he received a traffic ticket in Albuquerque.

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Bremer’s note to Dickman read,

Dear Lil: As my old standby I am calling on you to do something for me that it seems no-one else can do. I must get the enclosed letter to my father—unopened—& I know if I intrust it in your case it will be done. I suppose you know that my father has made a special appeal to everybody police & government officers included to lay off for three days so that he can make his own arrangements to get me back. Now the next thing is—is to get the instructions to him—& your old pal will not fail me I know . . .

Please girl hurry—but don’t loose your head—I know you wont & I’m sure you’ll do just as I ask you to do. We always did understand each other.

It’s a living hell here & the time I’ve been here seems like ages. Please do your part & I’m assured I’ll be home soon. Please hurry & be careful

As always

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The role Piquett and O’Leary played in Dillinger’s story was not fully understood until the 1990 discovery of an unpublished manuscript written by a Chicago advertising man and would-be novelist named Russell Girardin. The manuscript’s unveiling was a story in itself. In late 1934, Girardin secured the cooperation of both Piquett and O’Leary for a book he hoped to write about Dillinger. They told him everything, supplying dates and affidavits to back up their assertions, but Girardin was never able to publish more than a series of truncated magazine articles. His manuscript lay forgotten on a shelf in his Chicago home for five decades until, at the age of eighty-nine, he was tracked down by two Dillinger enthusiasts, William Helmer and Joseph Pinkston. The Girardin manuscript sheds a swath of new light on Dillinger’s story; many of its key points can be confirmed in newly released FBI documents.

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Hoover’s New York friends may be an allusion to his friend Walter Winchell.

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Born and raised in Oregon, Harold E. Anderson served in the FBI from 1927 to 1943. He later served as an investigator for the National Board of Fire Underwriters and the State Gaming Control Board in Nevada. He died in Las Vegas at the age of seventy-five in 1975. flattery. “I think that’s a very nice jail you have here,” he said to Mrs. Holley. “What makes you think there’s anything wrong with it?”

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Few books on Bonnie and Clyde include the Rembrandt robbery, perhaps because its only mention comes in the handwritten notes Lee Simmons took of Joe Palmer’s debriefing. The notes are included