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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.
As the new head of the Chicago Outfit, he is last seen visiting the dying Capone at his Palm Island estate in 1946, a year before Capone's death and three years after Nitti's actual suicide. In the 1983 film Easy Money, the Frank Nitti is the name of a kind of pizza ordered to Rodney Dangerfield's character's house.
He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, [4] but his first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles when he was seven.
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series continues with discussions about Eliot Ness, the Torso Murderer and Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
Now, their cause of death has been revealed. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, both 32 — who are part of a set of triplets, including surviving sister Edit Huszti — died from drowning, per BBC ...
Eliot Ness; Joseph D. Leeson, an expert driver with the specialty of tailing. [1]: 318 Lyle B. Chapman, a former Colgate University football player and investigator. [1]: 318–319 Samuel Maurice Seager, a former Sing Sing death row corrections officer. [1]: 235–236, 317 Warren E. Stutzman, an ex-Pennsylvania police officer.
A Michigan doctor and his wife are accused of locking their 10-year-old son with special needs in a closet for hours a day over several months, at times forcing him to clean his own feces.. It's ...