On this day, April 22, in 1934, notorious outlaw George “Baby Face” Nelson killed Special Agent W. Carter Baum during an FBI raid in northern Wisconsin. Nelson wanted to be known as Big George Nelson, ...
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) — This week marks 90 years since Grand Haven infamously had a brush with one of Chicago’s most dangerous gangsters. Lester Gillis, also known as “Baby Face” Nelson, led a ...
Lester Joseph Gillis, AKA "Baby Face Nelson," was a known associate of another famous Illinois outlaw: John Dillinger. Nelson was born in Chicago in 1908 and following his iconic life of crime, he was ...