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A small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in America

Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a rapist, prison escapee, murderer, and kidnapper; the subject of an intense nationwide manhunt; and one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted.

In Born to Lose, author James G. Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest...