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Italian-American mob boss Albert Anastasia, 1940s.

Umberto (Albert) Anastasia shot to death in barber’s chair, October 25, 1957

Albert Anastasia was one of the most ruthless and feared Cosa Nostra mobsters in American history. A founder of the American Mafia, Anastasia ran Murder, Inc. during the prewar era and was boss of the modern Gambino crime family during most of the 1950s.

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Bugsy…

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Bugsy Siegel lies dead riddled with bullets, after an assailant fired at him through the window with a M1 carbine, hitting him many times, Beverly Hills, June 20, 1947 -

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The more gory view from the front.

On the night of June 20, 1947, as Siegel sat with his associate Allen Smiley in Virginia Hill’s Beverly Hills home reading the Los Angeles Times, an assailant fired at him through the window with a .30-caliber military M1 carbine, hitting him many times, including twice in the head. No one was charged with the murder, and the crime remains officially unsolved.

One theory posits that Siegel’s death was the result of his excessive spending and possible theft of money from the mob. In 1946, a meeting was held with the “board of directors” of the syndicate in Havana, Cuba, so that Luciano, exiled in Sicily, could attend and participate. A contract on Siegel’s life was the conclusion. According to Stacher, Lansky reluctantly agreed to the decision.

Although descriptions said that Siegel was shot in the eye, he was actually hit twice on the right side of his head. The death scene and postmortem photographs show that one shot penetrated his right cheek and exited through the left side of his neck; the other struck the right bridge of his nose where it met the right eye socket. The pressure created by the bullet passing through Siegel’s skull blew his left eye out of its socket.

Though as noted, Siegel was not shot exactly through the eye (the eyeball would have been destroyed if this had been the case), the bullet-through-the-eye style of killing nevertheless became popular in Mafia lore and in movies, and was called the “Moe Greene special” after the character Moe Greene—based on Siegel—was killed in this manner in The Godfather. From Wikipedia

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Little Bohemia Lodge. Most famous as scene of a gunfight between John Dilliger and his gang, and Melvin Purvis and the FBI.

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Heavily armed guards surround the court house and jail, housing John Dillinger, fearful that Dillinger’s gang would try to rescue their leader. Jan 30, 1934

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Huge set of pictures of The notorious John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger was a Depression-era bank robber from Indiana who’s reign of illegal activity lasted only one year. From September 1933 until July 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing banks and police arsenals, and staging 3 jail breaks. In June 1934, Dillinger was named America’s first Public Enemy Number One by the FBI. On July 22, 1934, Dillinger was shot and killed by the FBI as he walked out of the Biograph Theater on Chicago’s north side. Anna Sage, his friend, had betrayed him to the FBI in return for not getting deported to her home country of Romania. Sage became known as the “Woman in Red” for her choice of clothing that day.