Originally Posted by Toodoped
Originally Posted by RushStreet
Toodoped, it is said that Angelo was one of the guys who tortured William Jackson which I do believe to be true. Your thoughts?

When police found the almost naked body of Jackson, he was face forward with rope marks on his wrists and feet. He had many cuts and burns all over his body, his chest had been crushed and he had a hole in his right ear from some type of sharp object.

Jackson was impaled through his rectum with a meat hook, hanging a foot in the air, while being questioned by mob enforcers. Jackson kept insisting he was not an informer but his torturers did not believe him. They stripped him naked, smashed his kneecaps with a bat, one of them shot him with a gun, broke his ribs, stuck him with sharp objects, used a cattle prod on his penis and anus making him evacuate his bowels, burned parts of his body with a blow torch. Then they left him for three days until he finally succumbed to his wounds.

Jackson's body was found on August 12, 1961, in the trunk of his own car, which had been abandoned on Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago.



Buccieri, Cerone, DeStefano, Torello and Yaras allegedly tortured and later killed Jackson. Im not sure about LaPietra...Buccieri was LaPietras capo and Torello was Buccieris top lieutenant, and so I think they were enough lol


TooDoped do you know who shot Angelo LaPietra in his knee, which I believe happened in the 1940s? I've been told it was a young kid of a guy who Angelo and Jimmy were pounding on. I've always wondered the real story there as I know he walked with a limp for years after that. I think LaPietra gets that 'hook' nickname from the media - he was called 'The Bull' by everyone in Chinatown. I don't think he was associated with Action Jackson and the 'hook' reference was for his juice racket - having guys on the hook - not the meat hook.