Perpetrator
John Dillinger
- Born
- 22 June 1903
- Died
- 22 July 1934, aged about 31
- Record
- Wikidata Q243918 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Dillinger Gang
Bank robber and escaper; charged with the murder of William O'Malley but never tried. Shot dead by federal agents.
1933–1934 · Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota; killed at the Biograph Theater, Chicago · Killed before trial
Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph. Read the case.
Dated events
Dillinger pleads guilty to the Mooresville grocery robbery and is sentenced to ten to twenty years.
Dillinger is paroled from Indiana State Prison after about eight and a half years.
Pierpont, Makley, Clark and others break out of Indiana State Prison with guns Dillinger arranged; he is already in custody.
The gang frees Dillinger from the Allen County jail in Lima, Ohio, killing Sheriff Jess Sarber.
After a hotel fire exposes gang members, Dillinger, Pierpont, Makley and Clark are all arrested in Tucson, Arizona.
Dillinger escapes from the Lake County jail at Crown Point using a real or carved pistol.
Dillinger is shot dead by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.