William Miller (criminal) William Miller (criminal) William "Billy the Killer" Miller (1906 – April 16, 1931) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. In his brief criminal career, he committed numerous bank heists in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Oklahoma, and teamed up with George Birdwell and Pretty Boy Floyd during the early 1930s. Miller was born in Ironton, Ohio in 1906. He first earned his nickname "Billy the Killer" when, on September 18, 1925, the 19-year-old Miller killed his brother Joseph in a fight over a woman. Tried in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, he was acquitted of murder on the grounds that he
The Robber Hotzenplotz Fröbe as the protagonist. In 1979 the second part was shown as a movie (News from Hotzenplotz) with a complete new crew. In 1989 the movie "The Robber Hotzenplotz" was shown in China, directed by Fang Run Nan in the Shanghai Film Studio. This Chinese version of the puppet movie, was released with the name “The big robber” (chin. 大盗贼). In 2006 another movie of Hotzenplotz (“The Robber Hotzenplotz”, directed by Gernot Roll) was shown in the theaters. All books in German were published by Thienemann publishing. The Robber Hotzenplotz The Robber Hotzenplotz is a character from the childbook author