[3] On December 27, 1929, she and Dague as well as her older brother, Tom Crawford, were involved in a grocery store robbery in Butler, Pennsylvania.
[2][3] While escaping the scene of the crime, they were stopped by two police officers, Brady Paul and Ernest Moore.
[2][3] Shrader, Crawford, and Dague all escaped and went into hiding, leaving Irene's four-year-old son, who had been in the car at the time, with a family member.
"[2] Tom Crawford was never arrested; the police believed that he was killed in a shootout after a robbery in Texas.
"[2] Donnie was heard to remark, "I'll bet my mom would make an awful nice angel."