Perpetrator
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
- Born
- 18 July 1895
- Died
- 18 July 1954, aged about 59
- Record
- Wikidata Q72733 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Urschel Kidnapping
Born George Kelly Barnes in Memphis; convicted and sentenced to life. Served most of it on Alcatraz and died at Leavenworth.
1933 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Paradise, Wise County, Texas · Convicted
Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life. Read the case.
Dated events
George Kelly and Albert Bates abduct Charles Urschel and Walter Jarrett from the Urschel home in Oklahoma City; Jarrett is soon released.
George and Kathryn Kelly are arrested in Memphis, Tennessee.
George and Kathryn Kelly are convicted and sentenced to life.
George Kelly is transferred from Leavenworth to Alcatraz.
Kelly dies of a heart attack at Leavenworth on his fifty-ninth birthday.
Kathryn Kelly and Ora Shannon are released on bond after a judge orders new trials; they are never retried.