Episode 12: The First FBI Agent Ever Killed — And the Car Thief Who Changed History
🔫 He was suave. He was clever. And he became the first man to ever kill an FBI agent.
In this intense episode of The Black Hour, we unfold the real-life manhunt of Martin James Durkin — a notorious car thief turned cold-blooded killer. After shooting agent Edward C. Shanahan in 1925, Durkin triggered a nationwide FBI pursuit that changed federal law forever.
🚨 From stolen Cadillacs to fake identities and buried evidence, this episode exposes how one murder shook the FBI to its core.
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