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Chasing Dillinger - Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy Number 1 (Paperback)
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Chasing Dillinger - Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy Number 1 (Paperback)
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Indiana Captain Matt Leach was at the helm of the violent years
between 1933 and 1935 that came to be known in the Midwest as the
era of the Public Enemy. Matt Leach elevated outlaw John Dillinger
to unprecedented celebrity with press coverage aimed at smoking out
the fugitive. In return, Dillinger vowed to kill him-a threat which
never came to fruition. Leach's use of publicity backfired, making
him a pariah among his fellow policemen, many of whom voiced
suspicion of his tell-all approach to crime fighting. Leach rose to
captain of the 1933 Indiana State Police from humble origins as the
son of immigrant parents. By 1937, the FBI ordered him fired for
challenging their authority. After returning to private life and
later enlisting in World War II, Leach planned a book to challenge
the FBI's version of the Dillinger's final months. His tragic death
in a car accident-prophetically occurring right after a meeting
with publishers over his planned book about the outlaw-consigned
him to his rightful place in the morbid, 1930s war on crime.
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