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Life Magazine called this man “one of the world’s greatest detectives” in its September 1946 issue for his role in convicting Al Capone and solving the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.

  • Elmer Irey
  • Eliot Ness
  • Frank Wilson
  • J. Edgar Hoover

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