He was reinstated not long afterward. ibid. comment
Kathy Folbigg: A campaign to free her. ibid.
The challenge was to sequence the [Folbigg] family’s DNA … Using some amazing new technologies, we found that the two girls had the same mutation as the one found in Kathleen … We also found these other mutations in the boys. ibid. Professor Vinuesa, Immunogeneticist
Mothers I think were being targeted. They were easy prey. ibid. comment
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Young women murdered or missing, families in anguish, a serial killer at work, and maybe he had a friend. Dateline: The Search for a Serial Killer: Good & Evil, Sky Crime 2020
Cano & Gordon driving together up and down Beach Boulevard, and all around Santa Ana and Anaheim. ibid.
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For the big fellow, killing was just part of his business plan, a plan to become the CEO of organised crime in Chicago. But as king of the bootleggers during Prohibition, Scarface Al became more of a celebrity than any corporate executive. He became the most famous gangster in the world. Mobsters s1e10: Al Capone, Bio 2007
Al could be an asset to [Johnny] Torrio … Capone rose quickly through the ranks of the underworld. ibid.
His 30-year-old brother Frank was killed in a shootout with Chicago police. ibid.
He was to become the target of criminals and lawmen alike. ibid.
In Chicago notorious gangsta Al Capone had wanted to teach a similar lesson to his rival – Bugs Moran. Mobsters s2e7: Mob’s Greatest Hits
Al Scarface Capone rose to power in the 1920s. ibid.
Capone had had enough: he decided to end the war once and for all. ibid.
Valentine’s Day 10.30 a.m. ... The Moran crew was waiting for their leader to arrive ... Men dressed in police uniforms arrived at the garage and walked into the building. ibid.
No-one was ever arrested in connection with the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. ibid.
By the time the ’20s ended he was undisputed king of the heap. What put him there was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre. Chicago was divided into spheres of criminal influence. The north side was controlled by Bugs Moran, Capone’s sworn enemy. The Story of Al Capone
Inside the warehouse there was a scene of carnage. The six members of the north side gang lay sprawled among the blood. ibid.
Capone was frequently involved in vicious fighting, and in 1919 decided to get out of New York and join Johnny Torrio in Chicago. ibid.
Chicago in the early twentieth century was already one of the most corrupt cities in the United States. One classic example of this was the 1919 World Series Baseball, when a New York gangster Arnold Rothstein bribed the Chicago White Sox to lose. Police and politicians all took bribes. ibid.
The Justice Department formed the group known as The Untouchables. This was a squad of agents trusted to be completely incorruptible. ibid.
In 1934 he [Capone] was transferred to the dreaded escape-proof Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. This spelled the end of the line for the king of the crooks. ibid.
Tests showed that he had syphilis, no doubt passed on to him by one of his past employees. As the years passed, Capone’s syphilis grew worse. He gradually became paralysed and was released in 1939 for treatment. His wife May was unaffected by the disease, which suggests that there had not been marital relations between them for a long time before his incarceration. She looked after him at their Florida home for seven more years when he died of a stroke and pneumonia at least 25 years before his time at the age of 47. Capone’s final body count is reckoned to be at least 400 men murdered at his command, and 40 by his own hand. Even today his name is a legend for ruthlessness and corruption. ibid.
Al Capone rose to power with a deadly combination of raw brutality and brains. He wanted the public to love him. But those who dared to cross him knew better. Killing was just part of his business plan. A plan to become the boss of organised crime in Chicago. Al Capone: Scarface, A&E 1995
Johnny Torrio became Capone’s mentor. Torrio moved to Chicago to run things for Big Jim Colosimo. Big Jim controlled a string of gambling dens and whore-houses. Colosimo’s nightclub was where the action was. ibid.
It took five years to bring all the evidence together. On June 5th 1931 the man known as Alphonse Capone was indicted on twenty-two counts of income-tax evasion. ibid.
The story of how frontier lawlessness and prohibition unleashed gang massacre upon America. Days that Shook the World s3e2: St Valentine’s Day Massacre, BBC 2005
St Valentine’s Day 1929: Capone is the mastermind behind a plan to see off his enemies. ibid.
More than a hundred bullets fired. ibid.
14th February 1929: A day of cold-blooded murder: the worst hit in Chicago mob history – four gunmen, possibly working for Al Capone, killed seven followers of Bugs Moran. Valentine’s Day Massacre, National Geographic 2016
Where was boss Bugs Moran? Why didn’t the Morans see it coming? Were the killers real police? Was it a crime of passion? ibid.
Moran v Capone meant the Irish v the Italians. ibid.
According to Bolton, the massacre plan was hatched at a meeting in Wisconsin headed by Capone himself. ibid.
Between 1920 and 1929 the economy was very good in Chicago. Al Capone – The Untouchable Legend, 1998
Torrio is working for the undisputed king of Chicago’s underworld Big Jim Colosimo. ibid.
Capone is infamous for his brutality. ibid.
Together, Torrio and Capone enter the illegal alcohol trade. ibid.
Bugs Moran – Capone decides to get rid of him. ibid.