I don't think anybody really knows on this. Michael Wallis said once he heard that Mills had run away to California but as I recall he was never really able to...
Hello everyone, I do agree with Rick on Floyd and the Robin Hood myths, but I don't believe killing Mills would have been Floyd's style, based on his criminal...
I suspect this theory is nonsense as usual but this Joseph Silver does seem to be an interesting scoundrel, at least from the perspective of having a long...
I'm probably as bleeding heart a liberal as you're likely to find around here, but even I know that a violent criminal killing a cop who is trying to arrest...
I suspect this author tacked the Ripper theory onto the end of his book in order to get publicity and sell more copies. It actually sounds like an interesting...
Hello Brian, When you say he was a murderer "PROBABLY"; several times over, PROBABLY or maybe is just another opinion...there's no solid proof to back it up. If...
I couldn't agree with you more. When you rob and kill someone in the act of robbery, it isn't self-defense. For every Dillinger, Coll, Floyd, and Nelson...
Given the technology we have today, we still have difficulty catching these serial killer types. It was probably someone demented but quite ordinary by all...
Sure, Floyd "said" the Kelley killing was self-defense. Just as most of the people you'll find in prison "say" that they're innocent. Here is why I said that...
Fred, I agree with you on everything, except...Dillinger was never convicted of murder so we can't legally call him a killer. There is absolutely no evidence...
Most serial killers are nobodys who would have otherwise gone completely unnoticed by history. Heck, most of them are barely even noticed by their own...
For better or worse, here in Oklahoma Floyd was and is perceived as a "Folk Hero." My wife and I have spent years drifting around the Cookson Hills and Eastern...
There is an admiration for the "outsider." They represent risks that ordinary folks aren't willing to take either for reasons of ethics/morality and/or fear....
"Jack the Ripper" was to a large extent created by the media of his time. I can't recall his first name but Stead was a publisher of newspaper that to a large...
Tony, I agree. He was never convicted, but he carried a gun and associated with folks who were willing to use them. He might have been more discriminating in...
There is an admiration for the "outsider." They represent risks that ordinary folks aren't willing to take either for reasons of ethics/morality and/ or fear....
That would be William T. Stead, publisher of the Pall Mall Gazette and largely the creator of modern tabloid journalism. Noted spiritualist, evangelist, and...
It's true that Dillinger was less violence-prone than many other outlaws but what it all boils down to is that he and his associates went into the business of...
Kelley actually had a long and distinguished career as a lawman and was very popular in the area. His murder cost Floyd a lot of support in the region, driving...
That's for sure, Captain. Nearly all of them were criminals long before the Depression. And while it may have been tough for ex-cons to find jobs, truth of the...
Does anyone know the exact address of James Probascos house. I live right down the street from where it is supposed to be and I don't see the address that I...
Hello Brian, I can argue with Ballistics, but I always thought Billy Miller killed Castner in Bowling Green, Ohio. As far as the killing of Curtis Burks in...
Brian, I agree, I worked as a gardener for Patrick Kearney for about five years mowing his lawn, once to twice a week and I was shocked when I learned he...
Fred, I completely agree with you. Dillinger was indeed different than the others. He used his head more then his gun, but in his business...he would have...
Rick, I believe the great depression had a lot to do with the making of criminals. There were even lawmen like Vern Miller who turned to crime because of the...
Hi Tony True Pierpont pulled the trigger, but Dillinger played a big role in breaking him out of prison. No jail break, no murder. JohnnieDillinger@......
You and I would have probably been bank robbers during the depression, if we had the nerve. Times were tough, and people with records could not find jobs...
