ArchivesJanuary 8, 2015 How We Caught Al Capone “The Big Fellow Was Collecting Millions, Turning Out 50 Corpses a Year. Chicagoans Had Only One Hope” By Frank J. Wilson As told to Howard Whitman I WAS STUCK. bogged down. Two ftruitless, frustrating years had dragged by since I’d come to Chi.cago. All I had to show for it was an aching bead. When myCONTINUE READING
“So They Killed My Brother” Salvatore Anastasio (1967) The lifeless body of Albert Anastasia is removed from the Sheraton Hotel.At ten and a quarter of the October 25, 1957 my brother Albert was killed. He had long hair and was gone in the “barber” at the Sheraton Hotel, on Fifty-fifth Street in New York. > Pierino was the man atCONTINUE READING
Albert Anastasia Murdered at the Park Sheraton Death called the executioner yesterday. Umberto (called Albert) Anastasia, master lolly for –Murder, Inc., a homicidal gangster troop that plagued the city frbm 1931 to 1940, was murdered by two g-urlmen. They approached him from behind at 10:20 A. M. as he sat for a hair. cut in the Park Sheraton Hotel barber shop atCONTINUE READING
Anastasia and Frankie Carbo Police Narrow 150 Leads in Slaying to One–Name of Frankie Carbo Comes Up Police officials Investigating the slaying of Albert Anastasia yesterday appeared to he look-ing up one street rather than 150 blind alleys. Detectives said the case had taken “a definite turn in one di-‘ rection.” They would not say what. the direction was.CONTINUE READING
