Originally Posted by Hollander
Originally Posted by Toodoped
Originally Posted by Hollander

Who actually shot the seven men that frigid February morning? No one will ever know for sure. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre is one of the most notorious unsolved mysteries – a mystery that continue to fascinate people almost 100 years later.


Fred Burke, Fred Goetz, Gus Winkler and Ray Nugent, and they all allegedly received $5,000 payment for the job or around $90,000 in today's cash. Two months before the massacre, they bought a police Cadillac from an auto dealership on Irving Park Road, which previously belonged to Cook County Commissioner Frank Wilson. The guy that was sent to buy the car identified himself under a different name such as “James Morton (or Martin) of Los Angeles”, which in fact was Byron Bolton who in turn was a part of the lookout crew. They also bought another car, Peerless Sedan, under another false name “Frank Rogers” and the guy gave his address as 1859 W. North Avenue, which was a place just few doors behind the infamous Circus Café. Claude Maddox's associate Bob Carey drove the false police car with Burke and Goetz dressed as cops, while the second car was driven by Rocco Belcastro with the other two hitmen, Winkler and Nugent, dressed as civilians.

Tony Capezio, Joe Lolordo and Raymond Schulte were assigned as the cleanup crew to get rid of the evidences, such as the cars that were used in the hit. After the murders, Capezio made a mistake that nearly cost his life while cutting through the gas tank with the acetylene torch, and so a fire broke out and blew him to the ceiling, thus knocking him unconscious. The reason was that he forgot to empty the gas tank. This stunt earned Capezio’s nickname “Tough Tony" and several years later, bank robber Alvin Karpis, who was a close friend of Capezio's, confirmed this story to the cops. Lolordo was involved in the whole operation because of the murder of his brother Patsy Lolordo who in turn was allegedly killed by the Aiello/Moran gang.

Detroit's Purple gang were allegedly also involved in the conspiracy since one of their members, on February 1, 1929, allegedly called Moran and said that the shipment with booze was ready and will deliver it on February 14, 1929, Valentine’s Day. Moran assured the caller that he would be there with his crew to help unload the truck in the gang’s garage on 2122 North Clark Street. But as we already know, Moran was late and avoided his own death. Later, Goetz, Winkler, Nugent, Carey and Rocco Belcastro, all were killed by the Outfit under the new leadership of Paul Ricca and Louis Campagna, while Burke was visited in jail by the Outfit's "connection guy" Phil D'Andrea and was probably told to keep his mouth shut.


Thanks Fred Burke I was aware of, the others are pretty obscure characters, Carey, Goetz, Winkler, Nugent, Schulte. If you said they were policemen I would believe you.


Yes, two of them were DRESSED and ACTED as policemen, while the rest two hitmen were in civil clothes. First entered the "cops" and later the additional two hitmen. After the massacre, during a raid on a roadhouse in Forest Park, which was owned by the Capone gang, investigators found a police star with no. 65 that was issued to one D. Alzell, and it was quite strange because the two stars and two uniforms which were used in the hit, were missing. Later, the investigators raided another liquor depot on the North Side which was operated under the auspices of Claude Maddox and Danny Vallo. During the raid, on the wall of the garage the cops noticed a paper with the name, home address, telephone number of two police officers and also information where they might be reached at any hour of the day.

Besides professional hitmen being used in the hit, there was also huge corruption which largely contributed for the whole case to remain unsolved even today. You see, several months before the massacre, Capone called for a meeting at a house located on Cranberry Lake, six miles north of Couderay, Wisconsin. Present at the meeting were Frank Nitto, Louis Campagna, Fred Burke, Gus Winkler, Fred Goetz, First Ward Republican committeeman Daniel Serritella and North Side politician William Pacelli.


Originally Posted by Havana

To be honest,I'd love to show it to you,if I knew how to put it up here on the forum


Later Ill send you a pm and ill explain the process to you.


Mongol General: Conan, what is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.