You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit

Detective Gary Jenkins.

Well, good evening, all you wiretappers out there. Welcome to another installment in the Portrait of a Hitman series. This is the series in the Chicago Tribune back in 1973 by a well-known reporter Bob Wadrick. He was able to interview Charles Chucky Cromaldi at length about his activities just before

he left town and disappeared into the witness protection program. He's interviewed about all the

judges and lawyers and doctors and professional people that have incurred the wrath of Sam DiStefano and how he put them on a hit list,

and then he got word out of prison back to Carmaldi to try to hit these guys.

Number one on the hit list was Circuit Court Judge Nathan M. Cohen in Cook County.

He had sentenced Sam DiStefano to a term of three to five years in 1965 for a conspiracy

to commit perjury in an armed robbery case. The second one was his lawyer, Julius Lucius

Eccles, E-C-H-E-L-E-S-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-L-E-E-E-E-L-E. He was a criminal attorney who had

had defended DiFanno unsuccessfully. The assistant state criminal attorney who had defended DiSefano unsuccessfully.

The assistant state's attorney, who was actually the one in trial prosecuting, was a Patrick Tuite.

Then there was a Cook County hospital physician who had refused to accept

DeFano's illness as a cause for granting him special privileges

while he was being held in the county jail awaiting trial.

Distapano gave instructions to Cromaldi to gun all these men down.

Thank you. Cromaldi to gun all these men down. Question.

What did DiSepano tell you to do?

Answer, he said that once he was back in the penitentiary,

he would send out numbers through his wife Anita,

like Judge Cohen was number one.

His lawyer, Ecclis, was number two. The prosecutor to it was number three and the doctor was

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