FINAL outside reading paragraph #12

This was John Dillinger's final try at evading the law. This time he was going to die for sure. He had nowhere left to run. The FBI kept raising the reward on Dillinger's head. Hoover and the FBI were closing in, he was hopeless. Daru Matera writes, "The world was closing in on John Dillinger. AHe had few friends, associate or relatives left that weren't itching to collect the $25000 reward on his head" (Matera 334). Even the people who had worked with him in the past were trying to find him to bring in. $25000 was huge compared to the bank jobs that the gang did. Usually, the Dillinger gang would collect roughly $125 per score. Dililnger was out of luck. Nobody would help him. Dillinger was done for, vigilantes were hunting him and the police was looking the other way on that. The two people who killed him were agents McCarthy and Gillespia. Matera recalls, "There was a long moment of eerie silence as Dillinger's blood spilled out on the cement. Then, as if by some signal, pandemonium reigned... Pedestrians swarmed the fallen felon" (Matera 354). It was bound to happen sooner or later, there were vigilantes, police, some of the national guard, and the FBI swat teams. John Dillinger died young, he was a true celebrity criminal. He is the most famous criminal ever to live.