@Regrann from @deathunderglass - Image: victims of St. Valentine's Day massacre, Chicago, IL, 1929 You might think that finding the intersection of Valentine's Day and crime would be challenging. Think again. On this date in 1929 the infamous Al Capone took control of organized crime in Chicago, ending a power struggle between his Italian-American gang and the Irish North Side gang. Two Capone associates dressed themselves as police officers and, with the help of two other affiliates, lured seven North Side gang members to a warehouse. The victims were lined up against a wall and shot to death with Thompson submachine guns. The only survivors were Highball, a German Shepherd, and Frank Gusenberg, a North Side gang enforcer. Gusenberg, who had been shot 14 times, lived for 3 hours. Questioned at the hospital about the perpetrators, Gusenberg's only reply was "No one shot me" - and, in fact, no one was ever prosecuted for the massacre. (Highball was unharmed.) Capone didn't get away scott free, though; he served time in Alcatraz for tax evasion and passed away from complications of tertiary syphilis in 1947. Al Capone got away with murder, but he had to do the same two things as every other American: pay taxes and die. #forensic#pathology #autopsy #deathunderglass #stvalentinesdaymassacre #alcapone #taxevasion #deathandtaxes #Regrann
