![]() ![]() “He’s on that island with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe and President Kennedy,” Matera said, “the place for people who never die. ![]() Sage, who accompanied Dillinger on his fatal trip to the Biograph and wore a reddish-colored dress as a signal to FBI agents, went down in history as the “lady in red.” A statue of her sits in the original ticket booth at the Biograph.ĭary Matera, author of the new biography John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America’s First Celebrity Criminal, says that Dillinger “lives forever, in a way no other criminal before or since has even approached.” In Chicago, more than 50 sites have been tied to him, including the Barrel o’Fun Tavern, where Dillinger first met his girlfriend, Evelyn Frechette, and two bordellos run by Anna Sage, the madam who later betrayed him. “But he gave a lot of it away to very poor people.” ![]() At Rodale, he was responsible for the writing and editing of selected chapters in six health and fitness books with sales of more than four million. “He did steal money,” said Tom Pyplatz, a businessman who this week visited the John Dillinger Museum in Hammond, Ind. Carroll & Graf, 26 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-7867-1354-7 In this overly detailed biography, true-crime veteran Matera ( The FBI's Ten Most Wanted, etc.) painstakingly recounts. Matera, 50, was formerly a reporter for The Miami News and worked as an editor in the book division of Rodale Press, the publishers of Prevention magazine. ![]() Some people in this part of the country still feel that way. ![]()
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