Tag: Major Joel Crowson

• 22 July 1934 – The death of Dillinger and the Texas Death House escape.

  

  22 July 1934 is usually remembered for Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger, shot dead in an alley next to Chicago’s Biograph Theater. Betrayed by brothel-keeper Ana Cumpanas alias ‘Anna Sage,’ the notorious ‘woman in red’ whose dress that night was actually orange, Dillinger’s story finally ended in the traditional fashion. Betrayed, ambushed, cornered and…

  CrimeScribe

  August 6, 2020

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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