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The FBI investigated his death and declared it a suicide, although the official coroner's report did not label the cause of death as such. A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally [44] while trying to extract a tracer bullet . [41]
- American
- Gunshot wound
- Mount Hope Cemetery
- Leading the investigation on the John Dillinger case
Although the FBI labeled the death a suicide, it was later determined that Purvis may have been trying to remove a tracer bullet that was stuck in the pistol.
Mar 9, 2020 · He died of a gunshot wound in 1960. The FBI claimed it was self-inflicted, but there's evidence he really might have been trying to clean the weapon and accidentally shot himself. It was the heyday of organized crime and celebrity gangsters with various levels of achievement and notoriety.
Support for this program is provided by The ETV Endowment of South Carolina. This documentary examines Purvis' life and sheds some light on his gruesome death.
- 57 min
Oct 3, 2005 · Melvin Purvis died in a possible suicide in 1960, when Alston was 16. “A big part of my mother died that day too,” he writes. After the birth of his own son in 1995, Alston Purvis was determined to set the record straight on his father, whose reputation, he says, was maliciously diminished by Hoover.
In 1960 Purvis was found dead at the top of a staircase in his home with a gunshot wound his head. It was officially ruled a suicide, but other facts suggested otherwise, and his death remains mired in mystery.
FLORENCE, S.C., Feb. 29 (AP) -- Melvin Purvis, who was special agent in charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation when John Dillinger was trapped and slain, committed...
