Today is Thursday, October 22, 2020.

On this day in 1934, Charles Pretty Boy Floyd died after a shootout with the police.

He was wanted for the Kansas City massacre, a violent altercation in July of 1933 that

took the lives of three police officers and one FBI agent.

After his death, Floyd would go on to become a mythical icon of depression era, America.

Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from podcast.

Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes, listener discretion is advised, extreme caution

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Today we're covering the gruesome slaying of infamous bank robber, Charles Pretty Boy Floyd.

Now let's go back to the evening of October 22, 1934.

Charles Floyd tramped through the woods of East Liverpool, Ohio.

He'd been on the run for over a year and he knew the cops were still on his tail.

After all, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had fingered him for what went down in Kansas City.

It didn't matter how much Floyd denied having anything to do with those dead officers,

Hoover had labeled him public enemy number one.

That left Floyd with two choices, run or end up six feet under like John Dillinger.

Floyd chose to run, but after being spotted on October 20, 1934 around East Liverpool,

he really needed to lay low.

So at the sight of a friendly little farmhouse, he slowed down, walked up, and knocked.

Forty-one-year-old Ellen Conkel opened the door and honestly, she didn't know what to

make of the disheveled fellow on the other side.

He told her he was a hunter, but there was something about his eyes when he said it.

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