Leader of a neighbourhood gang he called the Dirty Dozen. Great Crimes & Trials s1e6: John Dillinger Public Enemy No. 1, BBC 1993
Bitter and resentful, Dillinger decided to treat this as an education in crime, and in Indiana State Penitentiary he found willing teachers. From them he compiled a list of banks to rob in the mid-west. And by the time his sentence was up he had recruited a gang of experts to attack them. Within three months of his release in 1933 they had robbed their first bank at Daleville, Indiana. ibid.
In four months they robbed five more banks but Dillinger had been captured. ibid.
John Dillinger asked casually, ‘What kept you?’ They raced out of a side door and into a waiting car. Dillinger had his ideal gun. ibid.
They got away in a fast car. Dillinger had killed his first man. As the gang criss-crossed the mid-western states in Dillinger’s first spree of robberies the American public turned a villain into a hero. ibid.
He became one of the first prisoners to be transported by air. ibid.
Crown Point Jail, Indiana ... Dillinger stuck his gun, real or replica, into the ribs of a guard ... They walked out of the side entrance. ibid.
John Dillinger formed a new gang. ibid.
Public Enemy Number One. Among the members of the new gang was the notorious Baby Face Nelson. ibid.
But was it really John Dillinger? Dillinger’s eyes were blue-grey; the dead man had brown eyes. Dillinger had several scars; the dead man had none. Dillinger had never had rheumatic fever; the dead man’s heart showed that he had. Dillinger had perfect eyesight; the dead man wore prescription glasses. ibid.
Dillinger himself justified his legend somewhat more. In an amazingly short career, eleven months from September 1933 to July 1934, he achieved national fame and became the FBI’s Public Enemy number one. Great Crimes & Trials s3e26: Ma Barker and other Public Enemies, BBC 1996
At about 10 o’clock Dillinger walked out of the theatre with his molls who were about to sell justice to justice for a price. The Federal agents were watching ... A federal agent beat him to the draw. Newsreel
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5th April 1992, in Ohio the police taped off a crime scene beside an isolated rural pond. A 44-year-old fisherman lay dead, the victim of a brazen attack. Before long a task force alerted the public to the search for an elusive serial killer who was preying on sportsmen. Crime Stories: Thomas Lee Dillon
The story of the silent sniper. ibid.
Don Welling had been killed by a gunshot to the chest. ibid.
November 1991: detectives in Ohio were investigating the murder of 21-year-old Jamie Paxton, gunned down in the rural setting by an unknown sniper ... The two crimes had yet to be connected. ibid.
Little is known about Dillon’s early life, other than he was born in Canton, Ohio, and resided in Magnolia. He also had a wife and a son, had a college education, and worked as a draftsman for a Canton waterworks company for twelve years. For reasons unknown, he began his murders, starting with Donald Welling, who was walking or jogging alongside Road 94 in Tuscarawas County. The FBI soon became involved in the investigation when the fourth victim, Claude Hawkins, was shot while fishing near the Wills Creek dam in Coshocton County, the location being classified as federal property. Criminal Minds Wiki article
DILLON, WILLIAM: Oddee online -
Just days before he was supposed to try out as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers in 1981, a talented 21-year-old ballplayer was arrested on murder charges in Florida.
William Dillon, now 53, was convicted of the crime. He purportedly showed up at the beach where the body was found, despite a reliable alibi. It didn’t help that an inmate, in a ruse to shave time off his own sentence, lied and said that Dillon confessed the murder to him while awaiting his trial.
After serving 27 years behind bars, Dillon was exonerated of the crime and set free with the help of DNA technology and the Innocence Project.
Despite it all, Dillon, a musician who plays in a band with fellow exonerated convicts, sang the creed to freedom with his own rendition of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at a Tampa Bay Devil Rays game in 2012. Oddee online report, ‘10 of the Worst Wrongful Imprisonment Cases’
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‘A massive search is underway in a suburb of Philadelphia for four men missing since last week.’ The Lost Boys of Bucks County, news, Quest Red 2020
The extraordinary events of 2017 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, devastated families and confounded law enforcement … The harrowing investigation and the families who survived it. ibid.
Tom Meo, Plumstead, last seen July 7 2017; Jimi Patrick, Newton, last seen July 5th 2017; Dean Finocchairo, Middletown, last seen July 7th 2017; Mark Sturgis last seen July 7, 2017. ibid.
They find the car unlocked with no signs of a crime or struggle. Inside the vehicle investigators discovered something: if Tom Meo is still alive, his hours are numbered without his insulin. As the task force’s investigation intensifies, the four boys’ families begin looking for their own connections. ibid.
Cosmo DiNardo: it’s looking more and more like all these boys are linked and soon Dean’s family makes another connection: Dean was with Cosmo the night he disappeared. ibid.
On July 7th, 2017, Mark Sturgis and Tom Meo wanted to buy some weed … Cosmo met up with Tom and Mark … and drove out to his family farm … Cosmo shot Tom with a .357 handgun … and drove over Tom stopping his screaming for good. Cosmo then scooped up the bodies … and loaded them … [in] a makeshift pig roaster … that already had another body in it. True Crime Recaps: 4 Men Lured With Fake Pot Deal: Cosmo DiNardo Case, Youtube 16.50, 2022
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Dalia Dippolito was a south-Florida escort turned trophy wife. Only a few months after saying ‘I do’ to her new husband Mike, she decided she didn’t. But she did want his money and his townhouse. All she needed to do was get him out of the picture. True Crime Recaps: Dalia Dippolito, Youtube 29.27, 2021
She hired a hitman to shoot him … She was actually talking to an undercover officer. ibid.
August 5th 2009, Boynton Beach, Florida: I want you to quit your acting and get this over with. Signs of a Psychopath s2e1: I Didn’t Do Anything, rozzer to Dippolito
Police are questioning Dalia Dippolito about the murder of her husband, Mike. ibid. caption
Dalia stands to gain about £500,000 in assets with her husband dead. ibid.
Nobody’s going to be able to point a finger at me. ibid. Dalia
Two days later Dippolito meets the hitman in person. ibid.
They brought into the room the undercover cop who was masquerading as a hitman. ibid.