Machine Gun Kelly/H.C.L George Barnes (Machine Gun Kelly) was born on July 18th, 1895. He wasn’t very well known as a young criminal. He made most of his profits as an illegal bootlegger throughout his years and began to make a name for himself underground with his various minor arrests and run-ins with the law. It was in 1927 that he got arrested and put in jail for a couple of months for bootlegging. There he met some bank robbers began his road to infamy. It was in 1930 that George earned his name as George Machine Gun Kelly when he went up to Minnesota with his fiancée Kathryn Throne. There he started a bank robbing spree with Kathryn throne and associates Thomas Holden and Francis Keating skewering the country and robbing any bank …show more content…
They also found that The Kelly Gang had left 73,250 dollars with them in return for their cooperation in hiding them for that time being. Melvin was a widely famous detective especially because he was previously setting out for another famous criminal named John Dillinger. The fact that he would stop his work in order to catch the Kelly Gang made George extremely nervous but being the overconfident dolt he was, he set his eyes to hide out in his home town of Memphis, Tennessee. The kidnapping made headlines all over the U.S. and the Kelly gang was basking in the spotlight. The Kelly’s now on the road evaded capture for weeks after the G-Man (Melvin Purvis’s nickname) caught and arrested about half his time and his in-laws. Escape from the cold depression they had grown up in was now within they’re grasps. They had their ransom money and if they could escape they would be able to live out the rest of their years luxuriously and this dream drove them to do anything they could to succeed The G-man set out a top notch investigation only to find that the Kelly’s were temporarily staying at J.C. Tichenor’s home in Memphis, Tennessee. The home was a small town home owned by the father of one of their gang members. On the morning of September 26th, 1933 the home they were staying was raided. George and Kathryn Kelly were found in there room dressed in their pajamas and George was without his handy machine gun. It is supposed that when
While there are many killers that are alike in the actions and characteristics of their personalities, I found one killer that relates to Mr. Brooks, he goes by Son of Sam. Son of Sam (David Berkowtitz) killed many people in his time. He started off with a different method of killing until he found the one he liked most, which is the .44 caliber. Just like Mr. Brooks he had gone through different ways to kill until they found one and stuck to it. In 1977 he was taken into custody from shooting eight people. David confessed he had killed the people, but was obeying orders from a demon dog named
Frank Abagnale, Jr. worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline all before his 18th birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill gave him his first real claim to fame. At the age of 17, Frank Abagnale, Jr. became the most successful bank robber in the history of the U.S. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty makes it his prime mission to capture Frank and bring him to justice, but Frank is always one step ahead of him.
On June 22nd 1903 John Herbert Dillinger was born to John and Mollie Dillinger . His parents ran and owned a grocery store in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the age of three his mother died . John Dillinger’s father described his son as a “restless and aggressive” child . Beginning from a young age, the dark side of Dillinger became evident, as he created and led a gang called ‘The Dirty Dozen’ . The worst criminal act the ‘Dirty Dozen’ participated in consisted of stealing coal from the nearby railroad . As Dillinger grew older, so did the intensity of his crimes. In his teenage years Dillinger stole a car to impress a girl, and when caught he fled to the navy. According to John he was “discharged” from the navy, but records say he
Stunned by the harsh sentence, Dillinger became a tortured, bitter man in prison” (“Famous Cases,” n.d). On May 10, 1933, after serving eight-and-a-half years of his sentence, he was released on parole, where his life quickly continued to revolve around trouble. Dillinger and his gang committed several robberies, murders, and jailbreaks, causing Dillinger to be known for evoking the Gangster Era that ended on July 22, 1934, the night he was pronounced dead at Alexian Brothers Hospital after being shot three times by police officers in the alley by the Biograph Theater (“Famous Cases,” n.d).
Bobby was convicted of a cruel shooting during a robbery he killed the supermarket clerk that was 72 years of age.
Born in Victoria, Australia, 1855, Ned Kelly was the eldest son of an Irish couple, John Kelly, an ex-convict, married to Ellen Quinn. One of eight children, Ned attended a school in Port Philip until the death of his father in 1866. Left penniless, the family was forced to move to Eleven Mile Creek in northern Victoria.1 At the age of 14, Ned Kelly was arrested for robbing a Chinese man of ten shillings, he was then held for ten days. One year later Ned was arrested for suspected robbery with Harry Power, his employer, but was released due to a lack of evidence. 2 A turning point occurred for Ned in 1878. Dan Kelly, Ned’s younger brother, was soon to be arrested for cattle robbery, whilst his mother was arrested for striking a policeman who molested her daughter. Dan and Ned ran to the bush, and the officer arrived to arrest Ellen and Dan claimed that Ned had attempted to shoot him and a bounty of one-hundred pounds were placed on Ned and Dan. Ned Kelly and Dan Kelly were joined by Joe Byrne and Steve Hart, forming the Kelly gang. They killed three policemen and robbed multiple national banks. By December 1870 there was a bounty of 12, 000 pounds on the Kelly
This is an investigation of a missing person. George Erik James, a previous gang member with East Side Piru, was last seen by his parents the day before Thanksgiving in 1998. From what Mr. and Mrs. James said George left because him and his mom got into an argument. Before we began investigating this case, it seemed like George just left without contacting his family. With George being an adult, it didn’t seem like he ran away or got kidnapped. That argument could’ve been the last straw for George, therefore, making him storm off without telling his family where he was going.
He then started to get himself in to trouble with the police when he was arrested for highway robbery, but was released when
When George was a kid George worked in the fields near his hometown of Humboldt, KS, and later at the Humboldts, Cement plant. He attended 2 colleges Pitt State and Kansas State University. He later became a teacher at Coffeyville Junior College in Coffeyville, Kansas after his graduation.
Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He lived in New Jersey and New York and committed most of his crimes in that area. In 1988, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison -- he later died in prison in March of 2006
Missing, the three men are nowhere to be found. James Chaney, Mickey Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman have disappeared. The last time anybody heard about them was when they were imprisoned in the Neshoba County Jail. The three men were on the road, leaving Meridian, when a racist policeman pulled them over (supposedly from speeding). He took the men to jail and after a few hours released them. They had not even left Neshoba when the policemen named Cecil Price pulled them over. But he
Adolph Munson- Was convicted in 1985 for the murder of Alma Hall. She was abducted during her all-night shift at a convenience store. He became a suspect once police realized that, at the time of the crime, he was on a work release program run by an Oklahoma prison
John Wayne Gacy was the son of Danish and Polish parents. Gacy and his two siblings grew up with a drunken father who would beat them with a razor strap if they misbehaved; the man physically assaulted Gacy's mother as well. Gacy's sister Karen would later say that the siblings learned to toughen up against the beatings. Because of this abuse, John Wayne Gacy became one of the most ruthless and notorious serial killers of this time period (“Biography,” 2016).
On the morning of June 17, 1933, a mass murder committed in front of Union Railway Station in Kansas City, Missouri shocked the American public into a new consciousness of the serious crime problems in the nation.Kansas City mass murder was committed by This murder took place on Union Station railroad Depot in Kansas City this gun battle occurred when a game glad by Brandon Miller attempted to free Frank Kelly Nash a federal prisoner the Kansas City Massacre shocks the American public into a new currency of the serious crime problems in the nation the killings which took the lives of our 4 peace officers in the prisoner involved the attempt by Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd Nash was in the custody of several law enforcement officers who was
Jasmin Guerrero Richard Kuklinski On April 11, 1935 a baby boy was born in Trenton, NJ to Stanley and Anna Kuklinski. His name was Richard Leonard Kuklinski. He became known as one of the most brutal and sadistic serial killers there ever was.