Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson was the nickname of Lester Gillis (1908–1934), an American bank robber and murderer during the Depression-era crime wave.
Despite his boyish appearance and short stature, he was known for extreme violence and killed more FBI agents than any other criminal.
He ran with John Dillinger's gang before dying in a shootout with federal agents.
- gangsterCriminal organization member
- DillingerNotorious American gangster
- FBIU.S. domestic intelligence agency
- public enemy number oneMost hunted criminal designation
- outlawFugitive from justice
1930s · Chicago · bank robber · bank heist · machine gun · crime · crime spree · mobster · Ma Barker · shootout · getaway · on the lam · wanted · wanted poster · notorious · criminal · heist · Hoover
- Outlawsoutlaw, bandit, desperado, highwayman, robber
- 1930s FiguresFDR, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Babe Ruth
- Bank RobbersJohn Dillinger, Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy, Pretty Boy Floyd
- organized crimemafia, mob, the mob, syndicate, crime syndicate
Baby Face NelsonJ. Edgar Hoover
Eliot Ness · lawman · G-man · FBI agent · crime fighter
Baby Face Nelsonhero
One admired for courage
Mahatma Gandhi · Martin Luther King Jr. · pacifist · saint · Mother Teresa
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