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Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.He was leader of a team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables, handpicked for their incorruptibility.
Eliot Ness around 1933 The Untouchables were special agents, also known as "dry agents," of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition led by Eliot Ness , who, from 1930 to 1932, worked to end Al Capone 's illegal activities by aggressively enforcing Prohibition laws against his organization.
In December 1938, the Torso Murderer allegedly sent a letter to Ness, claiming that he had moved to California and killed a woman there and had buried the head in Los Angeles. In the letter, the killer referred to himself as a "DC" or Doctor of Chiropractic. An investigation uncovered animal bones. [29] [30]
Despite these achievements, Ness' time in Cleveland coincided with a gruesome string of unsolved murders by a serial killer known both as the Torso Murderer and as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
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Eliot Ness in 1931. The most famous dry agent of the bureau was undoubtedly the "Untouchable" Eliot Ness. [35] The group of agents that Ness oversaw, "The Untouchables," were by far the most famous group of prohibition agents. [35] Ness was overseen by the northwest district administrator, Malachi Harney, based out of the Chicago Prohibition ...
The Untouchables is an autobiographical memoir by Eliot Ness co-written with Oscar Fraley, published in 1957. [1] The book deals with the experiences of Ness, who was a federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition, as he fought crime in Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their incorruptibility, nicknamed The Untouchables.
Untouchability, the practice of socially ostracizing a minority group of very low social status; Untouchables, word for the Dalits or Scheduled Castes of India; Untouchables (law enforcement), a 1930s American law enforcement unit led by Eliot Ness