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The same night about 15 minutes later on 1400 block of Oak Street NW, a 22 year old man was shot in the face and was partially blinded. His shooting was dismissed because of objectivity. On February 26, 1993, three days following the first shooting a man burst in a barbershop and murdered a customer with his shotgun. This was James Swann’s first slaying. Once again, police brushed the case off assuming it was drug related.

Within three years Capone had taken over Johnny Torrio's business and controlled 161 illegal drinking establishments. In an attempt to expand his business, Capone developed the policy of killing his competitors. After the killing of “Don O'Banion” in 1926, gang-warfare broke out in Chicago. There were 130 gangsters murdered in just one district of the city in just on year. This included the famous St Valentine's Day Massacre when six leading members of the “Bugs Moran” gang were executed in a garage by gangsters dressed in police uniforms.

Clyde was paroled in February, 1932, rejoined Bonnie, and resumed a life of crime. In addition to the automobile theft charge, Bonnie and Clyde were suspects in other crimes. At the time they were killed in 1934, they were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries. Barrow, for example, was suspected of murdering two police officers at Joplin, Missouri, and kidnaping a man and a woman in rural Louisiana.

The prison break shown in the film is true. Dillinger was paroled after serving eight and a half years of his original sentence. Immediately after his release he robbed an Ohio bank and was incarcerated. Police found plans, while frisking him, for a large scale, armed break out. The next day Dillinger’s eight closest criminal counterparts escaped prison.

And now for your State news….. An Urbandale man whose girlfriend called police after she recognized his face in a surveillance photograph was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison for seven bank robberies. Richard Matzke, 58, was arrested in March 2002 as a suspect in more than 24 bank robberies in several states. He was convicted of seven Nebraska heists and was sentenced Friday in Omaha. Several robbery witnesses described a man who roughly fit Matzke's physical description, but none provided authorities with the license number of a getaway car. Matzke's arrest last year came after his fiancée tipped off police.

Moreover, John Herbert Dillinger soon dominated various amount of headlines, as a prominent thief. Dillinger and his gang frightened the Midwest, from September 1933 to July 1934. He killed and wounded around seventeen, robbed bank and the police and organized around three jail breaks. In his last jail break, Dillinger killed a sheriff. Dillinger stole the sheriff 's car and drove across Indiana-Illinois.

Dillinger committed his first major criminal act in September of 1924 with Ed Singleton. The two robbed a local grocery store assaulting the grocer in the process. The court later convicted Dillinger of assault and robbery from this robbery, giving him ten to twenty years in jail . Singleton received fourteen years in jail, though he had a criminal background and previous jail time. Dillinger believed that this unfair sentence caused his resentment leading to future robberies .

Walters was a members of the Order accused of “talking to much.” In May of 1994, Walters was driven into to the woods by other members of the Order who shot and buried him. The second target, Alan Berg, was a Jewish talk-radio host. The Order tried to scare him off the air, but their threats did little to Berg. After several heated conversation Bergs was shot and killed in front of his house. The Order continued with their reign of terror by robbing a Brink’s armored vehicle escaping with approximately four million dollars.

(Tripod.com, 2012) Finally, in August of 1985, the police had enough information from many of his victims to release a sketch of him to the media. The sketch had only been on the news for one day before he was recognized while trying to steal a car, and he attempted to flee when the civilians began to shout that he was the “Night Stalker.” Before long, a mob formed and attacked him. One of the men finally subdued him by hitting him on the head with a pipe. The police arrived to arrest Ramirez just in time to keep the mob of angry civilians from killing him. (Bruno, 2012) He was convicted of forty-three counts which included rape, burglary, murder, and sodomy on September 20, 1989.

On July 24, 1991, the news broke. Thirty-one year old Jeffrey Dahmer had been taken into custody in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Shortly before, police had been alerted by a terrified man, Tracy Edwards, still in handcuffs, who just escaped from a nearby apartment where he had been lured in by a man offering him a beer (Lane 126). Had the man not escaped, he would have been slaughtered by a butcher knife. Unfortunately for police, they had another opportunity to catch Dahmer in the act, but they failed miserably.