Posted on 10/07/2021 6:27:06 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1938, Adam “Eddie” Richetti was gassed for a notorious gangland bloodbath, the Kansas City Massacre. Whether he was actually involved in said massacre is a different question.
Richetti was a sidekick of the much better-known outlaw Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd, a guy who earned his cred in social banditry by taking time during his many Depression-era bank robberies to set fire to the mortgage liens.*
J. Edgar Hoover promoted this looker to Public Enemy Number One after the slot was vacated by the late John Dillinger — and that spotlight was much due to a railroad station shootout in 1933 known as the Kansas City Massacre. There, three gangsters led by Vernon Miller ambushed lawmen escorting Miller’s arrested associate Frank “Jelly” Nash. It was an attempt to free the latter, but he was shot dead in the fusillade — along with FBI agent Raymond Caffrey, two Kansas City detectives, and the McAlester, Oklahoma police chief who had helped arrest Nash only the night before. Several other John Law types were injured in the shootout....
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Public Enemy Number One
yet it is very reflective of today. There are many times in our history of lawlessness and we recovered, maybe we can do it one more time?
only five years from crime to punishment.
There is on Florida’s Death Row a local serial killer from here that has been there for nearly 30 years!..................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Walls
Union Station Massacre...a book written by Merle Clayton.
I don’t know. The massacres and the murders that these gangsters did in the 1930s pale in comparison to the ordinary and every day murders ongoing in places like Chicago.
This animal will die from obesity long before he gets the needle. He’s become a real porker in prison—just too bad he wasn’t fattened up for the kill.
The nephew of one of his victims wanted so much to attend his demise, but unfortunately he died of cancer a few years back.......................
And Hollyweird makes hero’s out of people like that.
The FBI lied then and set the pattern.
That’s sad—this piece of dung and Edward Zakrzewski should both be carbon neutral by now. Too bad our system of justice doesn’t allow for them to go out the same way their victims did.
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