The possibility of a major motion picture coming to Wisconsin is bringing back childhood memories for a Belleville man.

He believes his family encountered the infamous bank robber John Dillinger. This man admits he has no proof the outlaw was in Belleville, but he wants to make sure the story that he and others believe to be true will survive.

"Back in them days, this was out in the country, mind you... you bet. This was out in the country."

Back in 1934, Glennys Jelle was a six-year-old boy, going up the road with his father to visit another local farmer.

"If it were a rainy day, they'd get together and talk," Jelle says.

But one day, he and his dad noticed a car ....

"I just remember that almost like yesterday, that car sitting there."

It was parked outside of a church on their route.

"It was a nice looking car not real shiny," he says.

Glennys says by the time he and his dad passed by again on their way home, the car was gone, but it turned up again nearby.

"The fella that pulled them out said there was three men in the car and he suspected who it was too."

They learned later, the men had gotten stuck in mud up the road and an uncle helped pull them out for 20 bucks.

"The farmer where they went for help was milking cows yet that morning," Jelle says, "He had to hitch up his horses and go down and pull him out."

... Perhaps sending Dillinger and his accomplices on their way ...

"Having a gangster next door or whatever, yeah I think it stirred up some talk and a little bit of worry... "

But a hero to some during the Depression also left behind a trail of suspicion and stories for decades to come.

"Who would give you 20 dollars to get pulled out ... if you got five dollars, would've been big money at that time."

Dillinger is known to have stayed at a lodge near Rhinelander in 1934, before his death later that year. The film "Public Enemies" with Johnny Depp is expected to begin filming in Wisconsin, possibly in Richland Center and Columbus, within the next couple of months. And by the way, Glennys says he plans to see the film when it's released.