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Article: East Peoria Woman Remembers Making Dillinger's Death Mask
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 10, 1994
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EAST PEORIA Viewing the corpse of John Dillinger, the most
notorious outlaw of his time, 19-year-old embalming student Marjorie
Eker was struck by a peculiar sight.
The desperado, wanted for robbing more than 100 banks, had
polished fingernails and toenails.
"One of his girls had a beauty shop," she said recently in
recalling her role nearly 60 years ago in making a death mask of
Dillinger, after he was trapped by 22 FBI agents as he came out of
Chicago's Biograph movie theater and shot dead in 1934.
The teenage student, now Marjorie McDougall, remembers being
summoned to the Cook County Morgue the night of July 22, 1934, by a
teacher at the Worsham College of Embalming, where she ...