Albert Frederick Nussbaum
American writer
Died when: 61 years 273 days (740 months)Star Sign: Aries
Albert Frederick Nussbaum (April 9, 1934 – January 7, 1996) was a notorious 1960s-era bank robber and FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive.Nussbaum was born in Buffalo, New York.
In the late 1950s, Nussbaum was arrested for possessing a Thompson Submachine gun and transporting unregistered weapons across state lines.
Nussbaum was sentenced to the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio.There, he met Bobby Randell Wilcoxson, originally from Duke, Oklahoma, and Peter Columbus Curry, of Quitman, Georgia.
Wilcoxson was doing time for buying a car with a bad check and then driving it across state lines.Nussbaum was extremely intelligent.
He regularly competed in top-tier chess tournaments by correspondence from his Ohio jail cell.He was also an expert photographer, locksmith and gunsmith, pilot, as well as an accomplished airplane mechanic, welder and a draftsman.
Writing under his own name as well as pseudonyms, Albert Nussbaum became a successful freelance journalist and writer of crime fiction and television screenplays.
