Chicago in the roaring twenties ... Gangsters soon meant to mean Al Capone. Great Crimes & Trials s1e3: The Story of Al Capone, BBC 1993
What put him [Al Capone] there was the Valentine’s Day Massacre. ibid.
This determined Capone to eradicate Moran’s north-side gang once and for all. ibid.
After many courses and bottles of wine the three Sicilians were relaxed; suddenly, at a signal from their boss, the Capone Gang jumped on the trio, tied them up, and Al himself walked behind them with a baseball bat. Cursing them as traitors he beat them with a baseball bat. ibid.
Chicago was wild, large and corrupt. ibid.
Johnny Torrio first used Al as his bodyguard ... Johnny Torrio decided to retire in 1925. ibid.
Capone’s rackets were now pulling in at least $60 million a year, but he spent enormously. ibid.
Capone ironically took refuge in the safest place of all: he chose to go to jail. In 1929 he arranged to be arrested on the faintly ludicrous charge of carrying a gun, and spent ten months inside. ibid.
Capone was charged with twenty-three counts of tax evasion. ibid.
He died of a stroke and pneumonia at least twenty-five years before his time, at the age of forty-seven. ibid.
Al Capone – the gangland overlord who ruled Chicago in the 1920s. The Untouchables – led by Eliot Ness, a fearless crime fighter. A story carved into American folklore. The Untouchables: True Story
For Capone and his outfit the profits were unimaginable for the times. ibid.
To the American public it was Eliot Ness who had saved the day. ibid.
In reality none of the evidence gathered by Ness’s Untouchables was used to convict Capone at trial. ibid.
At the start of 1930s the US Government was involved in a secret plan to bring the notorious gangster Al Capone to justice. ibid.
[Frank] Wilson was following a money trail that led right back to Capone. ibid.
This was not a difficult job. Because the stench of fermenting mash could be noticed sometimes as far as half a mile away. Eliot Ness, diary
Ness was honest. He was intelligent. And his track record showed that he was not going to cave in to all the incentives most prohibition agents had at the time not to do their jobs. Paul W Heimel, author Eliot Ness: The Real Story
One could argue that Ness’s efforts against the Capone outfit were a smoke-screen for the more long-term activities that were going on behind the scenes. Paul W Heimel
You can’t trust nobody. Al Capone
You can get a long farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone, attributions & variations, apocryphal, possibly comedian Irwin Corey
Prohibition has made nothing but trouble. Al Capone
I am going to St Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I’m sick of the job – it’s a thankless one and full of grief. I’ve been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. Al Capone
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way. Al Capone
I am just a businessman giving the people what they want. Al Capone
All I do is satisfy a public demand. Al Capone
The death of Frank Capone I think had a profound effect on Al. And turned him from a kind of low-key Johnny-Torrio-type of racketeer to a much more desperate and violent hoodlum. Laurence Bergreen, author Capone, The Man and the Era
How to Succeed as a Gangster, 1963. Gangster Files s1e1: Al Capone, Myth & Reality, Amazon 2023
Chicago alone boasts of having 20,000 speak-easys. Millions of Americans find that breaking the law can be fun. ibid.
The most powerful man in the underworld is Scarface Al Capone, now barely 30. He controls policemen, judges and mayors, and he openly runs a vast network of bootlegging, gambling, protection and vice. His annual revenue is reported at over 100 million. ibid.
By 1930 Capone was also a cocaine addict.
Al Capone Gets 11 Years in Prison: Chicago gangster chief’s reign of terror ends with his downfall in Federal Court. ibid. Hearst Metrotone News
‘This imbued the onscreen character with a sense of glamour which in real life he didn’t possess.’ ibid. comment
‘His was an amoral universe marked by incessant warfare.’ ibid.
‘Al Capone was known for his huge altruistic streak.’ ibid.
CAPONE, CHARLES & DAVID STONE: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
Every breath she takes. Every move she makes. Someone is always watching. A woman pushed to the brink by a stalker moving in for the kill. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e10: Every Move She Makes, CI 2015
Clarkston, Washington: Here in the winter of 2010, 40-year-old Rachael Anderson is a single mum holding down two jobs while raising her two young sons. She also has two adult daughters, Amber and Ashley, who live nearby. ibid.
2010: She starts receiving disturbing voice messages. ibid.
Capone’s violent behaviour towards women continued in 2009 when he choked his new wife. ibid.
[Charles] Capone [ex-husband] used several disposable Tracfones to call himself. He then used the same app that disguised his voice to create the fake phone numbers. ibid.
‘It was a circumstantial case until David Stone came forward.’ ibid. rozzer
CARLSON, STEVEN: Cold Case Files TV -
5th April 1984, Pleasanton, California: A 14-year-old high school student [Tina Faelz] viciously stabbed and left for dead. The key evidence hidden for 30 years. Cold Case Files s1e3: She Never Came Home, A&E 2021
‘In the ’80s there were 3 serial killers identified as murdering young girls in the Pleasanton area.’ ibid. rozzer
2011: ‘The FBI found four drops of the suspect’s blood on the purse … The FBI agents says it’s Steve Carlson.’ ibid.
CARNEAL, MICHAEL: Very Bad Men TV -
The last ten years have been a struggle for Missy Jenkins, paralysed from the chest down … In 1997 Missy was caught in a bloodbath: a gunman opened fire in her high school, changing the face of her small town for ever. Very Bad Men s2e4: The Schoolboy Shooter, ID 2014
The gunman was only a kid himself: 14 years old. And he was the girl’s friend. His name was Michael Carneal. ibid.
Lawyers argue over his mental state.
Burglary, three counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. ibid.