FBI agent Melvin Purvis was known as the Man Who Shot Dillinger.
Purvis never actually fired at John Dillinger in the 1934 shootout in Chicago that ended in the death of”public enemy number one.”
But Purvis directed the trap and pointed Dillinger out to other agents and police.
A bullet shot through a victim’s heart sometimes precipitates a final laugh before death.
In Italian, Mafia means “beauty, excellence, bravery”. Cosa Nostra means “our thing.”
On March 12, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing Martin Luther King, Jr.
At about 11:20 A.M. (CST), on November 24, 1963, the twenty-four-year-old Oswald was shot by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby (formerly Rubenstein). Lee Harvey Oswald was shot while he was being transferred from jail to an armored truck. He was killed by one shot of a .38-caliber snub-nosed revolver.
A black act is slang for picking a lock in the dark.
A 1979 New York study revealed that only 3.4 percent of state parolees were returned to prison for committing new crimes. 8.5 percent were returned for parole violations. Thirty percent of ex-prisoners, however, were sent back to prison within five years of their release.