Robert Kennedy never made it to Chicago, home of the crime boss he tried to destroy in the early sixties. Ever since his assassination, there has been speculation that Sam Giancana had a hand in it. The connection between Giancana and the Kennedys began many years earlier, when Joseph Kennedy and Sam Giancana were in the boot-legging business. Although they didn’t know each other, they shared a common interest – ambition. Sam Giancana the documentary
At about 10:30 on the evening of the 19th June 1975, an old friend visited Giancana in his basement kitchen. Sam cooked a snack of Italian sausages while they chatted. With his back to his visitor, Giancana attended to his cooking. The visitor pulled out a .22-calibre pistol, placed it on the back of his neck and pulled the trigger. ibid.
Giancana was head of the Chicago Mafia mob that had once been run by Al Capone. Joe Kennedy had asked him to support his son’s election campaign. JFK – The Scandals Revealed
‘Hey, Sam! How about a loan?’
‘Whattaya need?’
‘Oh about $500.’
‘Whattaya got for collateral?’
‘Whattaya need?’
‘How about an eye?’ Sam Giancana
Arrested more than 70 times for assault, larceny, bombing and murder, he personally tortured some of his victims, and is thought responsible for 200 killings. Reputations: Sam Giancana: The Gangster Who Dreamed, BBC 1996
Sam Giancana was boss of the Chicago Mafia. And without doubt the most powerful gangster in America. But what made Giancana different was not his violence but his dreams. ibid.
Giancana vanished into exile in Mexico, taking with him some of the deepest secrets of government. ibid.
Bootlegging had made him rich. ibid.
Sam Giancana was making a fortune in Havana. ibid.
Neither his caretaker nor police officers watching his house heard the six shots that killed Sam Giancana at midnight on June 19th 1975. ibid.
The sharp-dressing guy who takes way too little credit for way too much. Cross him once wake up dead – just ask Kennedy. Momo: The Sam Giancana Story, Youtube 1.49.03, 2011
Grew up in ‘the patch’ known as the Spaghetti belt where Italian immigrant came to recreate their past in broken down buildings. ibid.
‘Sam Giancana was the meanest, the toughest and the smartest of the 42 gang.’ ibid.
Sam was like a killer’s killer. ibid.
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Re Barry Gibbs: ‘It’s completely crazy and irrational that you could be framed for this murder out of nowhere. Out of nowhere.’ The Innocence Network, 2023, Barry Scheck
Barry Gibbs claims to be a victim of a miscarriage of justice … November 4th 1986: Barry was convicted of the murder of a woman in Brooklyn, New York: her body had been found on the side of the road. ibid.
‘It’s not quite clear why Barry became a suspect in this case.’ ibid. Vanessa Potkin
The officer who was present on the day of the crime and who could have exonerated Barry was not called to testify by the defense. However, the prosecutor called to the stand the runner who identified Barry Gibbs in the police line-up. ibid.
‘A professional snitch … who have an incentive to lie.’ ibid.
Barry Gibbs had always felt framed by this officer [Louis Eppolito]. ibid.
DNA testing of the evidence: this was the only lead that might indisputably prove Barry Gibbs’s innocence. ibid.
An unexpected lead appeared hitting the headlines in the news: Office Louis Eppolito and his colleague Stephen Caracappa were prosecuted for links to the Mafia. ibid.
‘The eyewitness who had identified Barry … broke down and confessed and said that Eppolito had coerced him into identifying Barry in a lineup.’ ibid.
‘They raided Eppolito’s home … they found the original police file.’ ibid.
On September 27 2005 after 19 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit Barry Gibbs was officially exonerated and released. ibid.
‘Plucked off the streets and framed for a murder out of nowhere.’ ibid. Scheck
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Identical twins Doris and Yvette Gay always struggled to fit in. But when a man enters both their lives their strange behaviour turns dark. Soon a sinister plot emerges. Evil Twins s3e4: Hell Hath No Fury, Discovery 2015
Renwick [Gibbs] and the twins are ready to put their plan into motion … Renwick and Yvette approach Ann’s family home … Renwick and Yvette round up Ann’s mother, her sister Shamika and her brother William junior but the person they came for is missing … Renwick shoots Ann’s mother, brother and her 16-year-old sister execution style. ibid.