To most Hoosiers, John Dillinger is the very picture of an Indiana fugitive, but the state has seen many fascinating criminal characters on the run. In Tippecanoe County, two Lafayette youths murdered the sheriff's deputies transporting them to prison. The gun-toting "Elwood gun girl" walked from the headlines into legend. One fugitive passed himself off as a small-town cop while on the run, and a well-spoken Indiana killer became the first fugitive captured as a direct result of the TV show America's Most Wanted. Veteran true crime author Andrew E. Stoner examines not only the trail of destruction criminals have left in their wake but also their lives on the run.
Andrew E. Stoner is an Indiana native well versed in the true crime history of the state, both as a former reporter for the South Bend Tribune and as the former civilian public information officer for the Indianapolis Police Department. The author of nearly a dozen nonfiction works, Stoner is a graduate of Franklin College of Indiana and Ball State University. He holds a PhD from Colorado State University and is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University-Sacramento.