S3 Ep2: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Chicago Gang Wars of the 1920s
Author
Amber Hunt and Audioboom
Published
Mon 13 Mar 2023
Episode Link
https://audioboom.com/posts/8262440
In Prohibition Era Chicago, competing gangs of bootleggers battled for supremacy. In February 1929, notorious gangster Al Capone set up a brazen trap to mow down a slew of his rivals in what would become one of the most infamous crimes of the time. It would also lead to the creation of America's first-ever crime laboratory, and mark the beginning of the end for some of the most powerful criminals in American history.