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From the Vietnam Memorial database:

MICHAEL J BLOTTENBERGER
Panel : 13W Line 070
Army
Private First Class Pay grade E3
Killed in action March 1, 1970 by small arms fire
ground casualty gun, hostile, died in Binh Dinh South Vietnam.

The body was recovered.

Home of record was BALTIMORE, MD.

Born July 27, 1949 age at death 20.
A Caucasian Male, Married. Religous affiliation Methodist.
CAACF Record Number : 214561569

I sure don't think that Mike Blottenberger would like it if he knew his son grew up to be a criminal, or that the FBI used him as an excuse to shoot somebody else. There's just one tragedy after another ....

Now to see who was fighting in Binh Dinh in March '70.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

On March 1, 1970, elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and attached elements of the 101st Airborne Division (specifically 3/506) were finishing up a fight with lots and lots of NVA in the Mang Yang Pass neighbourhood. By this time most of the contacts were tapering off, and the casualty database says that this Blottenberger was the only man killed in Binh Dinh that day (well, the only American).

Now, we have no proof that he is the father of this bank robber. But the numbers align nicely and it is an unusual name.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F