Lady in Red

The poem allegedly was chalked on an alley wall where John Dillinger was shot

Stranger stop and wish me well,
Just say a prayer for my soul in hell.
I was a good fellow, most people said,
Betrayed by a woman dressed all in red

A third of the entire Bureau of Investigations (pre-FBI) budget in 1934 was spent on hunting Dillinger

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