This is a list of Depression-era outlaws spanning the years of Prohibition and the Great Depression known as the Public Enemy era. Those include, but are not limited to, high-profile criminals wanted by state and federal law enforcement agencies for armed robbery, kidnapping, murder and other violent crime. These are not to be confused with organized crime figures of the same period.
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