John Dillinger as a Child
Born in 1903 to a middle-class family in Indiana, John Dillinger experienced tragedy early in life when his mother died when he was four years old. His father remarried years later, which upset Dillinger because he wasn’t fond of his new stepmother. His father reacted to the upset by physically beating his son. As a child, Dillinger was frequently in trouble and although he was intelligent, John left school at an early age.