Tags: Criminal.
Martin James Durkin (1900-1981) was an American criminal and car thief. He is credited as the first man to kill a federal agent and was the subject of an intense manhunt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Personally led by J. Edgar Hoover then recently appointed Director of the FBI it was one of the first major investigations by the agency who were led by Durkin on a three-month chase through five states before his capture in 1926.