s&d: True Crime! books

"Beef with" although he probably also had a beer, or ten.

Other thing is I'm back to reading about Al Capone and have this new pet theory that Bugs Moran set his own guys up to be bumped off (he survived), but I have to do more reading.

There are still unresolved issues with the St. Valentines massacre after all this time and growing up I heard a lot of stories.

my grandmother lived pretty close to where the SVM occurred and heard all the commotion after the fact. she was 17 when it happened i think. it was a wild time to grow up in Chicago.

Yeah it was crazy. People being gunned down in respectable neighborhoods. Gangsters eating in fancy restaurants every night. SVM massacre was in Lincoln Park I think Capone preferred to do business in the burbs.

I heard so many stories growing up of perfectly respectable people getting their liquor - smuggled from Canada - through Capone.

I learn new things every day: Anthony DeAndrea- "priest, politician, translator, gangster."

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Halfway through this:

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There are a couple of print pieces cited earlier in the thread. I didn't know anything about the book or the case--just turned up on a sale table at Indigo.

Definitely disturbing. Part of me wants to know more about "Slenderman" and creepypasta.com, but a much bigger part says "No, those are not things you want to be googling." So I'll make do with the book. I do encounter some very strange middle-schoolers these days.