Before Michael Mann and Johnny Depp wanted to make a movie about John Dillinger, John Dillinger wanted to make a movie about John Dillinger. This was June 1934, near the end for the notorious criminal. Dillinger was hiding out in Chicago. Two months earlier, he'd escaped an FBI raid at the Little Bohemia resort in northern Wisconsin. His gang's girlfriends had been brought to jail in Madison. Now in Chicago, Dillinger, his accomplice Homer Van Meter, who'd been with him at Little Bohemia, and Louis Piquett, Dillinger's attorney, were pondering alternative revenue streams.Piquett, born and raised in Benton, a small...