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Frank Cotolo
June 4, 2020 |
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In the annals of crime history, the same names of iconic figures of lawlessness always emerge.
Everyone has heard of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Puffy Lips Louie and Killer Cupcake
Calhoun, mostly because their miscreant tales all had endings. This is why you never heard of
Deadly Don Billingsly, whose story never ended. In a few parts, we exclusively present the tale
of the greatest bank robber in history, who earns that title because he was never caught.
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Blame it on the press or the police's embarrassment as to why Deadly Don was kept from public
knowledge but whomsoever is to blame has to admit that there are millions of dollars and a slew of
murders unaccounted for in the silenced story of Deadly Don. He and his small group of thugs
scourged financial institutions through the 1920s and well into the 1960s, baffling the best
law enforcement agents across North America.
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It all began when a ten-year-old Don Billingsly was kicked in the ass in front of his rickety
wooden shack of a house in Goosetown, Missouri (a town that has since been leveled and turned into
a pay-by-the-hour parking lot). The man holding the mortgage to Don's father's shack came to
foreclose. Don protested by throwing Goose droppings at the man and was arrested.
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The foreclosure left the entire Billingsly family (Don's parents and his brothers Irving, Lucian,
Bippy, Horatio and his sister Sicily) homeless. In jail, Don swore to avenge the institutions of
the world, turning to crime the moment he was released from jail.
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