My mother's older sister Irene had eight children, seven of them girls. One of those girls was named Lois.
Some time in the late 1950s, Lois crossed paths with a man named Everett Leroy Biggs.
Biggs was from another Illinois family, like my cousin. He had served in the U.S. Marines in post-war Korea.
At any rate, they met, married, and had several children together. And during their marriage, Everett became a wanted man. A very wanted man.He was so 'wanted', that he made it onto the FBI's most wanted list on November 21, 1966, as #240. The FBI described him as a "serial armed bank robber".
He wasn't on the list long, only two weeks. On December 1, 1966, Everett was arrested, taken by surprise outside his Colorado home. It is said that they tracked him down through his children, who were enrolled in a nearby school. He served his time, was released, and to my knowledge, walked the straight and narrow thereafter.
I'm not sure when my cousin divorced him, but in 1979, he married again, and he and his second wife were together until his death in 1997.