Editing John Dillinger (section)

===Family and background===
John Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903, at 2053 Cooper Street, [[Indianapolis]], Indiana,<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/john-dillinger|title=Famous Cases & Criminals – John Dillinger|publisher=Fbi.gov|access-date=2017-04-21}}</ref> the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger (1864–1943) and Mary Ellen "Mollie" Lancaster (1870–1907).<ref name=matera>{{cite book|title=John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal|author=Matera, Dary|publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers|year=2005|isbn=0-7867-1558-8}}{{pages needed|date=March 2025}}</ref>{{pages needed|date=March 2025}}

Dillinger's parents had married on August 23, 1887. His father was a grocer by trade and, reportedly, a harsh man.<ref name=matera/> In an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that his father was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage "spare the rod and spoil the child".<ref name=matera/> His mother died in 1907, just before his fourth birthday.<ref name=matera/><ref name=fbi>{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/dillinger/dillinger.htm |title=Famous Cases: John Dillinger |access-date=2009-06-26 |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919030546/http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/dillinger/dillinger.htm |archive-date=2009-09-19 }}</ref>
That same year, Dillinger's older sister Audrey married Emmett "Fred" Hancock, in a marriage that produced seven children. She cared for her brother for several years until their father remarried in 1912 to Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fields (1878–1933); they had three children.<ref name=fbi/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wthr.com/story/27856998/depression-era-gangster-john-dillingers-sister-dies-in-mooresville-at-92|title=Depression-era gangster John Dillinger's sister dies in Mooresville at 92|website=[[WTHR]]|date=January 15, 2015|author=WTHR.com Staff|access-date=January 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119023231/http://www.wthr.com/story/27856998/depression-era-gangster-john-dillingers-sister-dies-in-mooresville-at-92|archive-date=January 19, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>