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The American gangster has been both romanticized and vilified in books, movies and pop culture. Their crimes range from abduction and bank robbery to tax evasion and war crimes - and almost everything in between. Most of these criminals died horrific and painful deaths.

Here are nine infamous American villains from the early twentieth century.





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