Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy No. 1

by Ellen Poulsen, Lori Hyde

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s. Pushing a media campaign aimed at smoking out the fugitive, Leach elevated Dillinger to unprecedented notoriety. In return, Dillinger taunted him with phone calls and postcards, and vowed to kill him. Leach's use of publicity backfired, making him a pariah among his fellow policemen, and the FBI ordered his firing in 1937 for challenging their authority. This is the first full-length biography of the man.

289 pages, Paperback

Published August 14, 2018

About the author

Bachelors of Arts in Literature, Queens College-CUNY, Flushing, New York, 2001

Working Freelance Court Reporter.

Researcher, writer, working author, lecturer.

Passionate about my books and the subject matter. Always interested in connecting with other writers, researchers and readers in the subject of 1930s true crime history.

Reviews

[Kara Laufeyson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book, I gave it four stars out of five because the co-author isn’t listed here. Her name is Lori Wilcox-Hyde and she is an excellent researcher and crime historian.