G-Man: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Purvis. Special | 56m 47s Video has Closed Captions | CC. This documentary examines Purvis' life and sheds some light on his gruesome death.

In 1936, a “Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man Corps” brass ring was offered. A ring featuring a green scarab was issued a year later. The brass ring has a book value of around $35 to $40 in very good ...

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Daryl Lozupone (left) and Danny Wolohan star in Denis Johnson’s “Purvis.” a new Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts drama about G-man Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who captured John Dillinger.

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COLUMBIA — Melvin Horace Purvis. To many people today, the name means nothing. But it was not so long ago that Purvis was a household name, and more than 260,000 ...

J. Edgar Hoover assigned South Carolina's own "G-Man" Melvin Purvis to hunt down and put an end to Dillinger. After escaping several FBI entrapments, Dillinger was found hiding in Chicago, Illinois.

Gangster John Dillinger was shot down by G-Man Melvin Purvis outside of Chicago’s Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, after watching a movie — naturally, it was a gangster flick, “Manhattan ...

Legendary Lawman Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. This month’s lawman is most noted for the capture of John Dillinger and the less than stellar history between J. Edgar Hoover and himself.