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Leopold William August Brandenburg
Born
August 11, 1886
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, US
Nationality
American
Leopold William August Brandenburg[1] (born August 11, 1886)[2] was a 20th-century American medical doctor and criminal. He became notorious after surgically changing the fingerprints and "facial contour" of criminal Ronald Philipps, a.k.a. "Roscoe Pitts," in 1941, for which he was sentenced to three years in prison, although the sentence was later overturned.[3] Pitts had attempted to rob a grocery store using explosives in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
Brandenburg was later sentenced to five years in prison for illicitly prescribing morphine, a narcotic, to patients.[4]
Brandenburg was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, on August 11, 1886.[5]
^"Free Doctor In Fugitive Case". Lancaster New Era. 24 August 1943. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
^"U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918". Ancestry. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
^"Dr. Brandenburg is Freed". The New York Times. 25 August 1943. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
^"Physician Found Guilty". The New York Times. 18 October 1946. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
^"U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925". Ancestry. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
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