"His girlfriend's landlady snitched (him out) to police," Mary Oliver, Dayton History's director of collection, said of the local arrest of infamous bank robber John Dillinger on Sept. 22 ...

The anti-crime package also established stiff punishments for many of Dillinger's offenses, including bank robbery and crossing state lines to avoid the law. Within two months, special agent ...

In the 1930s, when the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression, people cheered bank robber and accused murderer John Dillinger when he appeared on newsreels in movie theaters. They hissed ...