Josh Mankiewicz
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But what's incredibly unusual is that he wrote poems or someone with his exact name wrote these poems and published them while he was on the run.
And the poems are about being pursued by the FBI.
I don't think he ever realized that anybody would...
who was chasing him, would see them.
I think he was doing this for his own sort of creative outlet.
Well, he was kind of taunting police in the conversations he had with them.
At one point, they posed as a faculty member from American University.
He was doing a story about Sue.
And they said, can we come to Mexico and interview you?
And he was like, yeah, come on and bring your Kevlar, meaning your bulletproof vest, right?
So, you know, clear that, you know, I don't know if that was a direct threat, but it's certainly an admission that he knew that that person was not a reporter.
Did he know that the FBI was going to see his poetry talking about them?
But you don't often see fugitives from the FBI write poems about being pursued by the FBI.
I don't think Capone penned any verses.
It just makes your bad guy a more interesting character.
It was just on the street outside his house.