What was the problem with the photos taken of john dillinger after his death?
In the 75 years since John Dillinger’s year-long crime spree ended in a hail of bullets outside a Chicago movie theater, stories about the Hoosier bandit’s exploits have flourished in his home state. With the release this week of Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis (the FBI agent who did him in), the robber is likely to leap back into the public consciousness, renewing his status, deserved or otherwise, as a pop culture figure. East Central Indiana — where a just-paroled Dillinger indeed spent time in the summer of 1933, pulling off at least three holdups — has its own collection of Dillinger legends, some of them based in truth, others utterly false. While the passage of years, especially over the past two decades, has significantly reduced the number of first-hand witnesses to Delaware County’s share of the Dillinger era, there was a time when it seemed virtually every local resident — or their neighbor, co-worker or grandfather —
