Dive into the dark and deadly world of organized crime as we explore the most notorious and shocking mob hits in history. From calculated assassinations to brutal vengeance, these stories reveal the ruthless nature of criminal underworlds that shaped American history.
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00:00Hello boys, uh, something I can do for you?
00:02Yeah, you can shut up.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're discussing the most notorious slayings in the history of organized crime.
00:09So are these cases devastating to the mafia?
00:13Giuseppe Morello.
00:14Even bosses and dons aren't immune to being cut down at the heights of their power.
00:18Giuseppe Morello was one of the earliest mob bosses,
00:21having founded a New York gang that eventually grew into what's now known as the Genovese crime family.
00:26Morello chose relatives and people he knew from Sicily, Corleone, for the top ranks of his family.
00:32It would be the Castellammarese War that ended Morello's life as a gangster in 1930,
00:36during which he served as an advisor or conciliary to Genovese boss Giuseppe Masseria.
00:41Morello was working with an associate by the name of Joe Perriano when he was gunned down.
00:45The hitman inside opened fire, unleashing a hail of bullets.
00:49Some sources claim that Charles Lucky Luciano was responsible,
00:52while others claim it was a soldier from Chicago.
00:55Charles Joway
00:56Don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong.
00:58Charles Joway learned this lesson the hard way on August 18,
01:011954, when he was slain by gunmen loyal to Chicago's Joey Glimco.
01:06This is a lot of work.
01:07Yeah, you ever think of using candy?
01:09What?
01:10Candy.
01:10Joway wasn't an enforcer or known tough guy,
01:13preferring instead to work with extortion and blackmail rackets.
01:16Still, his success on this front didn't make Joway immune to making enemies,
01:20such as when this mob associate accidentally became involved in a mob-backed construction argument.
01:25Glimco's people were going back and forth with a contractor tasked with
01:28building a new Howard Johnson's restaurant.
01:30Charles Joway just got caught in the proverbial crossfire.
01:33William Bentvena
01:34Things should have been looking up for William Bentvena
01:36after he was released from a prison sentence in 1970.
01:39Give us a drink.
01:40Get them all a drink, dear.
01:41Organized crime does reward those who keep quiet and don't rat, after all.
01:45Yet it was during a welcome home party for Bentvena where this drug smuggler
01:49said the wrong thing to the wrong guy.
01:51He was terrific. He was the best. He made a lot of money, too.
01:55Salud, Tommy.
01:56No more shines, Billy.
01:58What?
01:59I said no more shines.
02:00A joke about shining shoes delivered by Bentvena to the hot-headed Tommy DeSimone
02:04proved to be the former's undoing.
02:06I'm sorry. Tommy gets a little loaded. He doesn't mean any disrespect.
02:09You don't mean any disrespect, Henry. Are you nuts?
02:12DeSimone and some associates beat Bentvena to death,
02:15and reportedly buried him at a friend's local dog kennel.
02:18This was an unsanctioned hit, and DeSimone eventually disappeared,
02:22with some seeing the Bentvena slaying as the cause.
02:30Fred Weiss
02:30It was a slaying that made the papers, and one that DeCavalcanti crime family associate
02:35Giovanni Riggi admitted to ordering back in 1989.
02:38The target was Fred Weiss, a newspaperman who had become
02:41mob-connected via his real estate development firm.
02:44Now, what happened with Fred Weiss was, he was around the Gambino guys.
02:50Someone had him underneath their arm.
02:53Weiss' firm was allegedly dumping medical waste illegally,
02:56and they were soon caught by authorities. The DeCavalcanti family hit was reportedly
03:00a favor to Gambino boss John Gotti, who felt that Weiss was going to cooperate with the police.
03:05John Gotti wants this guy dead. You know, they want to make sure that they get this correct.
03:10Two gunmen shot Weiss outside of his girlfriend's condo on Staten Island,
03:14silencing Fred Weiss for good.
03:16Alan Dorfman
03:17Our lives can lead us down some strange roads.
03:19Alan Dorfman was a World War II veteran who was present at the Battle of Iwo Jima.
03:24However, he was also a notorious associate to both the mob and Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa.
03:29Dorfman worked within the realms of organized labor,
03:32and was convicted of embezzling funds from pension members.
03:35But Dorfman, he had to do with the Dorfman.
03:38FBI agents bugged his offices, tapped his phones,
03:41and were preparing for Dorfman's sentencing when the latter was slain by mob gunmen in 1983.
03:46Nobody was convicted for the murder,
03:48and it remains unclear upon whose orders the hit was initiated.
03:52Dorfman himself was awaiting sentencing in federal court,
03:56but apparently someone already had passed sentence on Alan Dorfman.
04:00Abe Rellis
04:01Remember the old saying, if it looks like a duck,
04:03swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck?
04:07The case of former Murder Incorporated hitman Abe Rellis is a little different.
04:12That's because this tough and mean mobster actually turned tail
04:15and was due to testify against the Gambino crime family.
04:17Rellis' official cause of death is listed as defenestration,
04:21otherwise known as falling out a window.
04:23Rellis was in police custody during the 1941 accident,
04:27and it's since been alleged that these cops were on the take and pushed Rellis to his death.
04:31However, a second theory claims that Rellis was attempting to escape,
04:35although he had previously shown no such desire to leave his room.
04:38Nicholas Guido
04:39They say everybody has a price.
04:41We're not sure if that's 100% true, but NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Lewis Eppolito
04:47didn't feel obligated to honor their shields and sold out to organized crime dollars.
04:51The city of New York paid out $5 million to the family of one Nicholas Guido back in 2015,
04:57after it was discovered that Caracappa and Eppolito shot him on the orders of a rival mob boss.
05:02On Christmas Day, 1986, Casso sends gunmen to Nicky Guido's address.
05:09They find Guido outside, talking with his uncle in a car parked near his house.
05:14The hit took place back in 1986, with one glaringly tragic caveat.
05:18They shot the wrong Nicholas Guido.
05:20According to Casso, even though the wrong Guido had been killed,
05:24Eppolito and Caracappa were rewarded for their help.
05:28This was an innocent man who happened to share a name with the target that Caracappa
05:32and Eppolito uncovered, utilizing their police database.
05:35The mob cop's case remains the most shocking example of police corruption
05:39in New York City's history.
05:41Jaime Weiss
05:42It's the sort of ripped-from-the-headlines situation
05:44that's been dramatized over the course of countless gangster pictures and television shows.
05:48Same dough we paid for knocking off Jaime Weiss, okay?
05:52As you wish, my friend.
05:53The death of Northside gang leader Jaime Weiss was a bullet-riddled affair,
05:57a bloody Monday whereby Weiss was felled by a hidden submachine gun.
06:01It's been alleged that Jack McGurn shot Weiss upon the orders of the latter's rival Al Capone.
06:06Still others claim that it was Capone's bodyguard Frank Nitti who helped organize
06:10the hidden gunmen who fired at Weiss and his associates while occupying a nearby building.
06:14Frank DiCicco
06:15The assassinations perpetrated by organized crime can be carried out a number of ways.
06:28Car bombings tend to be common,
06:35particularly when it comes to crime families operating in Sicily.
06:38It was this method of hit that in 1986 finally felled Frank DiCicco,
06:42a feared underboss for the Gambino crime family.
06:45DiCicco was one of the men that helped carry out the infamous hit on Paul Castellano,
06:48but this brazen killing didn't make the man invincible.
06:51He became a fireball after soldiers on orders of the Lucchese crime family planted a device
06:56and waited for it to do its fatal work.
06:58Samuel Mad Sam DiStefano
07:00The bloody legacy of Mad Sam DiStefano is one of the most
07:04disturbing from the world of old-school Chicago crime.
07:06This was a man that seemed to enjoy his work just a little too much,
07:10earning a reputation for torture, mental instability, and even devil worship.
07:14DiStefano would eventually become known for these bouts of crazed and violent behavior,
07:18on the streets, at home, and even in the courtroom.
07:22This recklessness earned DiStefano a death sentence in 1973,
07:25a shotgun assassination that was allegedly carried out by either Fat Freddie Sarno
07:29from Boston's Winter Hill Gang or DiStefano's own associate Tony Spolatro.
07:34The Eminem Murders
07:35There have been a number of infamous mob hits that received the dramatization
07:39treatment on the silver screen.
07:40The Eminem Murders were one such hit,
07:42a gruesome scene that was showcased in director Martin Scorsese's 1995 classic Casino.
07:47Don't make me have to do this, please, come on.
07:49The incident in question occurred in 1962,
07:52and was perpetrated by two of the Mafia's most easily angered associates.
07:56Tony Spolatro and Mad Sam DiStefano eradicated two burglars,
08:00James Miraglia and William McCarthy, in truly gruesome fashion.
08:03They sought out McCarthy on the first night,
08:05torturing him to the point where he then gave up his partner Miraglia.
08:09Spolatro and DiStefano then proceeded to finish the job.
08:12The word got around that finally there was a real gangster in town.
08:17Dino Bravo
08:18The world of professional wrestling is full of larger-than-life characters,
08:22but sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
08:25I'm not stepping out that way. I want to face you in front of all the people of Montreal.
08:30We know what you've got, they know what I've got.
08:32This is particularly true when it comes to the story of Dino Bravo,
08:36a former superstar in the WWF that reportedly ran
08:39afoul of organized crime syndicates in his native Canada.
08:42Je pense qu'il a peut-être été naïf, et souvent l'argent va faire des choses.
08:48Bravo, who was born Adolfo Brasiano in 1948,
08:52was allegedly involved with smuggling cigarettes alongside his professional wrestling duties.
08:57The athlete's situation was dramatized on the docuseries Dark Side of the Ring,
09:01where it was revealed that Bravo possessed some real reservations about his dangerous side hustle.
09:05When Dino was at the end of his days, he may have done something that he wasn't supposed to.
09:10A lot of rumors run, and he must have realized at one point, you're screwed.
09:16These reservations were well-founded,
09:17as Bravo was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds on March 10, 1993.
09:22Shonder Burns
09:24It takes chutzpah, brass nuts, to get what you want.
09:30Organized crime doesn't take holidays off. Perhaps this explains why the well-known
09:34Jewish-American gangster Shonder Burns was taken down on Easter's Holy Saturday back in March 1975.
09:40Burns had been feuding with Irish-American mob boss Danny Green.
09:44This feud had escalated to the point where Green had actually survived an assassination
09:48attempt plotted by Burns. The latter, however, wasn't so lucky. Burns was taken out by a car
09:53bomb, the explosion of which was described by police as being one of the strongest they'd ever
09:58witnessed. This was the result of the bomb being composed of C-4, a deadly military-grade explosive.
10:11Philip the Chicken Man Testa
10:13Philip Testa's moniker of the Chicken Man may sound silly,
10:16but there was nothing humorous about the manner in which he met his demise.
10:19The Chicken Man, known by this name due to his day job working with poultry,
10:23was allegedly whacked by members within his own circle.
10:26Testa was walking into his Philadelphia home when a homemade device known as a nail bomb went off.
10:31This is an explosive that shoots off deadly nail shrapnel into its target.
10:35Testa died on his front porch, but his killers would soon see retaliation for their crimes.
10:40Underboss Peter Casella was exiled, while capo Frank Narducci Sr. was shot down for
10:44his involvement in the Chicken Man hit.
10:46Irving Puggy Feinstein
10:48Don't get too big for your britches. Irving Puggy Feinstein learned this the hard way when
10:53he ran afoul of the mob back in the late 1930s. Feinstein's low-level gambling and
10:58racketeering operations allegedly hid desires for future expansion.
11:01This ambition did not sit well with others in the organization.
11:05A hit was put on Puggy, and the sentence was carried out by the infamous enforcement outfit
11:09Murder Incorporated. Harry Strauss, Abe Rellis, and Martin Goldstein did the deed with an ice pick.
11:15But Puggy wasn't going down without a fight. The mobster fought tooth and nail with his attackers,
11:20literally taking a bite out of Strauss during the hit.
11:23The Murder Incorporated boys were issued scores of contracts by the syndicate,
11:26and the business at hand was executed with neatness and finesse.
11:30Feinstein's burned body would later be found abandoned in a vacant lot.
11:34The Big Tuna Murders
11:35He skirted. He got him there. He fooled the government. He had a termed life.
11:39He was always able to win out.
11:42Operation Family Secrets was an FBI investigation that uncovered the details of numerous murders
11:47that took place within the world of Chicago-organized crime. A number of these deaths
11:52were the brazen but foolish burglars who decided to rob the home of crime boss Tony
11:56Big Tuna Icardo. This inside job was performed by associates within the mob,
12:01and it didn't take long for Icardo to connect the dots.
12:04Soon, everyone involved with the burglary was found slain in gruesome fashion.
12:08When Icardo found out about it, one FBI source told me that his informant said,
12:13the old man, he had never seen the old man so angry.
12:17Then, a number of hired assassins were also whacked, in order to keep things quiet.
12:21As for Icardo, he died of natural health complications at the age of 86.
12:26The Blackfriars Massacre
12:28The world of organized crime in Boston,
12:30Massachusetts has its own laundry list of infamous murders and hits.
12:34One such incident took place at the Blackfriars Pub back in June of 1978.
12:38The downtown Boston spot was closed, but a number of men known to police,
12:42as well as a local news reporter, were playing backgammon in the pub's basement.
12:47Their bodies would later be found by authorities, slain gangland-style,
12:51while money and narcotics were found at the scene.
12:53The Blackfriars Massacre remains unsolved,
12:56with some theories pointing to both the Patriarca crime family
12:59and the notorious Winter Hill gang as potential suspects.
13:02Bring me Trump.
13:04Danny Green
13:04Danny Green's legend was born in this era.
13:07Known as the Irishman, his colorful career
13:09included a rocky stint heading the local Longshoremen's Union.
13:12We mentioned earlier how Danny Green narrowly avoided an
13:15assassination attempt by his rival, Chandra Burns.
13:18Well, this wasn't the only time the Irish-American mob boss had cheated death.
13:22In fact, Green had become pretty good at avoiding nearly every attempt on his life,
13:26of which there were more than a few.
13:28His lucky streak finally ended, however, on October 6, 1977.
13:33He was a mobster, he was a thief. You name it, he was.
13:37Green was leaving an otherwise innocuous dentist appointment,
13:40not knowing that his phone had been tapped.
13:42He was killed by a car bomb, but it wasn't his car that blew up.
13:46Instead, hitman Ray Ferrito had planted a bomb in the car next to Green's.
13:51The boss would be found dead at the scene.
13:53The mob wanted him dead. Ferrito decided to tell all.
13:57And with Ferrito naming names, some of those names wanted deals and protection.
14:01Dutch Schultz
14:02They send you.
14:07Word to the wise, if even the organization tells you not to do something, don't do it.
14:13The infamous mobster Dutch Schultz did not listen when his request to assassinate New York
14:17prosecutor Thomas Dewey was denied. Instead, he tried to go ahead with his plan, and paid the
14:23price. A hit was put out on Schultz, and by all accounts, it got messy.
14:28Although Luciano has no intention of allowing Schultz to kill Dewey,
14:32he realizes that his former stablemate is too hot-headed to brush off.
14:37Hitmen from Murder, Inc. tried to take out Schultz and his associates at the Palace
14:41Chop House on October 23, 1935. It was a bullet-riddled affair, with the assassins
14:47getting away, while all of Schultz's gang received grave injuries. They would be taken
14:52to a local hospital, but all of them, including Schultz, eventually died from their wounds.
15:04Joe Masseria
15:06Much more you want to lose.
15:07Un capo piccio. One boss.
15:11You may not be aware of the name Joe Masseria — unless you're a mob historian, of course.
15:16However, most everyone has probably heard of the man responsible for Masseria's murder,
15:20Lucky Luciano. Luciano was actually a lieutenant of Masseria's, while the latter was operating as
15:26a boss in the Genovese crime family. The hit took place at an Italian restaurant,
15:30the Nuova Villa Tamaro, where Masseria was shot repeatedly.
15:34Joe, this ain't number 16.
15:40Masseria was actually made aware of Luciano's treachery beforehand,
15:44and attempted a counter-hit, but was further betrayed by another associate, Joe Adonis.
15:49Lucky Luciano's plan was successful, while some of the gunmen involved included Adonis,
15:54as well as other big-name mobsters, such as Vito Genovese and Bugsy Siegel.
16:04Sam Giancana
16:07The only name you needed to know. And when Sam took the reins,
16:11all hell broke loose all over the world.
16:13Over the years, this Chicago mobster has been linked to CIA efforts to assassinate Fidel
16:18Castro during the Kennedy presidency. At the time of his death, Momo was 67 years old,
16:23and known for his gambling and refusal to spread the wealth.
16:26Giancana's greatest strength was not his violent nature, but his gift for making money.
16:34It was Giancana who struck fear into the electrician's union,
16:37so that every slot machine in Chicago paid the mob.
16:41In 1974, he even relocated to Cuernavaca, Mexico to avoid legal hassles.
16:46Large payments were certainly made to powerful men in Mexico City to protect him,
16:51to provide sanctuary.
16:53But a life of crime caught up to Giancana on June 19, 1975,
16:57as he was gunned down while cooking sausage and peppers. Aside from those responsible,
17:02nobody knows who killed Sam the Cigar, and conspiracy theories persist.
17:07Joe Gallo
17:20Known as Crazy Joe, this New York mafioso was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
17:32During the 50s, he joined the Profaci crime family, working as a hitman and extortionist.
17:39But eventually, Joey started a war with the gang,
17:42and kidnapped Joe Profaci's brother-in-law, Joseph Magliaco.
17:51That is not something a crime lord forgets.
17:54On April 7, 1972, Crazy Joe celebrated his 43rd birthday in Manhattan.
17:59Later that night, Gallo was ambushed and shot at Umberto's Clam House,
18:03and later died at Beekman Downtown Hospital.
18:06Anthony Spolatro
18:10This Chicago gangster was the inspiration for Joe Pesci's character in the 1995 film Casino.
18:15And if you're familiar with the Martin Scorsese classic,
18:18then you know that Anthony Spolatro suffers a horrific fate.
18:21In 1963, the Ant was officially a made man, and in 1976, he established the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
18:29Spolatro eventually became suspected of skimming allegations of the mob's Las Vegas operations.
18:34He swiftly disappeared in 1986, and was later found buried with his brother Michael.
18:47Police suspected Spolatro may have been involved in almost two dozen murders.
18:52Jack McGurn
18:53Maybe I'm wrong to butt in like this,
18:56but the last couple of months I've been doing a little checking up on Moran.
18:59Born Vincenzo Gibaldi, this man ultimately settled in Chicago and began boxing as a teenager.
19:05Think you can handle it, kid?
19:06Yes, sir.
19:07By 1923, however, Jack McGurn joined Al Capone's crime organization,
19:12and became known as the Machine Gun.
19:14He's known for killing singer Joe E. Lewis,
19:17and allegedly helping plan the infamous St. Valentine's Day massacre.
19:20Exactly one day and seven years after the massacre,
19:23McGurn was gunned down in Chicago, and the killers left a telling clue.
19:27A valentine with a poem.
19:29Jack McGurn, a Sicilian immigrant, was 33 years old,
19:33and his half-brother Anthony DeMori was also murdered two weeks later.
19:37Angelo Bruno
19:38Known as the Gentle Don, this iconic gangster was actually known to avoid violence.
19:50For 20 years, Bruno headed the Philadelphia Mafia,
19:54but he began making enemies within the organization because of his greed.
19:57London is going to be the Las Vegas of Europe.
20:01We need someone to front and someone to muscle for us.
20:04On March 21, 1980, his own underboss, Antonio Caponegro,
20:09allegedly had the docile Don killed outside his home on a South Philadelphia street.
20:14This did not go over well with the commission, the Mafia's ruling body,
20:17which had not given their okay for the hit.
20:20As a result, Bruno's death was immediately avenged,
20:23as Caponegro was murdered for ordering his own boss's murder.
20:26I know.
20:28No, you don't know.
20:32Wait by the bar, would you?
20:34Paul Castellano
20:35For years, Big Pauly was a legend of the New York Mafia.
20:39The question is whether his death will spark a new Mafia war in New York,
20:42or be the end of one.
20:44By 1975, he succeeded Carlo Gambino as the head of the Gambino crime family,
20:49and once reportedly put a contract out on an undercover FBI agent.
20:53In the mid-80s, Castellano was arrested for racketeering,
20:56just as an associate named John Gotti put a deadly plan in motion.
21:00We're hitting Paul.
21:09And anyone else who's in the car with him.
21:11On the evening of December 16, 1985, Castellano and his underboss,
21:15Thomas Bellotti, were both gunned down outside Manhattan's Spark Steakhouse.
21:19A brazen act that announced a changing of the guard.
21:23I gotta be loyal.
21:26Without that, we crumble.
21:31Tell that to Paul Castellano.
21:34Carmine Galante
21:35Carmine Galante.
21:36He was head of the Bonanno crime family,
21:39known as the cigar he was widely feared for his cruelty.
21:42Born in Harlem to Sicilian immigrants,
21:44this man became involved with organized crime before his teenage years.
21:48In the 40s, Carmine Galante worked as a hitman and later teamed up with Joseph Bonanno,
21:53leader of the Bonanno crime family.
21:55After 12 years in prison from 1962 to 1974,
21:59Galante attempted to run the drug trade, which greatly disappointed the five families.
22:04In five short years, he transformed the fortunes of the U.S. Mafia
22:09by leading it into an era of multi-billion dollar profits and unparalleled violence.
22:15On July 12, 1979, the 69-year-old Galante was murdered in Bushwick,
22:20Brooklyn at Joe and Mary's Italian-American restaurant.
22:23It was such a perfect hit that it entered Mafia folklore.
22:26The commission had officially ordered the hit,
22:29and Galante famously died with a cigar in his mouth.
22:32The motive for the murder, however, was clear.
22:35Galante had become rich through drugs and refused to share his wealth.
22:40The American Mafia exists because of this Italian immigrant.
22:44In 1919, Albert Anastasia first arrived in the United States
22:48and was soon sentenced to death for a 1921 murder.
22:51But the mad hatter received a new lease on life when several witnesses disappeared.
22:56By 1957, Anastasia was a 55-year-old legend in the criminal underworld.
23:01He would not hesitate to resort to violence,
23:05whether it was shooting or murdering anybody, just to advance his position.
23:10But the crime boss met a violent end when associates of Carlo Gambino,
23:14including the aforementioned Joe Gallo,
23:16allegedly murdered Anastasia at a midtown Manhattan barbershop.
23:20Excuse me, sir, I need to go in the back for a moment.
23:23All right, won't be too long.
23:25Decades later, it remains one of the most aggressive power moves in mob history.
23:30It's not a mob hit where they've taken you in the woods.
23:34It's happened right there in the middle of New York City.
23:37That's one of the reasons it's iconic. It's so visible.
23:40Benjamin Bugsy Siegel
23:42Along with his friend Albert Anastasia,
23:44this Jewish mobster was a founding member of Murder Incorporated.
23:47Bugsy Siegel was one of the main players in Murder Incorporated,
23:50which was the enforcement arm of the Lucky Luciano mob.
23:53Benjamin Bugsy Siegel is also responsible
23:56for developing a small desert town called Las Vegas.
23:59Take a look at this place, this beautiful place.
24:03What I want you two to do is take it in.
24:06Take a deep breath. Do you smell it?
24:11Go on, go on. Take a deep breath. What do you smell?
24:14Born in Brooklyn, Bugsy began a life of crime as a young man,
24:17and his organizational skills led him all the way out west.
24:20At age 14, he started his first gang.
24:24He would go around and intimidate push cart peddlers
24:28by telling them they needed to pay him for protection.
24:30When they questioned what they needed protection from,
24:32he would throw kerosene on their push carts, set them on fire.
24:35Unfortunately for Siegel, his brash demeanor and lavish lifestyle made him many enemies,
24:39and one of them showed up at his Beverly Hills home on June 20, 1947.
24:44So I think the decision was made that the only way to tell him he was finished
24:49was to finish him.
24:50As Bugsy read the L.A. Times inside,
24:52an unknown assassin fired through a window, killing the gangster.
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25:12The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
25:14This is a raid! Everybody, against the wall! Do you know the drill?
25:19Throughout history, individual mob hits have symbolized a transfer of power.
25:23In 1929, Al Capone made a major move by taking out several members of an Irish gang led by George
25:29Bugs Moran. Two supposed police officers arrived at a North Chicago warehouse and,
25:34along with two other hitmen, massacred seven gangsters with Thompson submachine guns and
25:39shotguns.
25:40Moran and others pointed the finger at Capone, but Al had an airtight alibi. He was in Florida
25:46in a meeting with a district attorney in Miami at the time of the shootings.
25:50A contract killer named Frank Gusenberg survived the attack, but he refused to identify the
25:55assassins before passing away hours later. It's the stuff of movies, but it's also a disturbing
26:00real-life mob hit that sheds light on the brutality of Prohibition-era America.
26:05All right, you two, let's go.
26:08Listen, buster, you better be kidding.
26:10Move.
26:14How's he, flat feet?
26:17You'll literally hear about this downtown.
26:19Do you think that movies and television overly glamorize the lives of organized crime?
26:23Let us know in the comments.
26:24I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burnt to the ground!
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