The Mysterious Death of Eugene "Guy" Izzi

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, History

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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‘Baffling Last Chapter to Mystery Writer’s Life,’ said the LA Times. ‘Novelist’s public death creates Chicago Mystery,’ wrote the New York Times in December 1996, and Patrick Rogers for People Magazine said, ‘Eugene Izzi has created another riddle in his own death. No matter who was responsible, it was an exit scripted with a grim tabloid flourish. On Saturday morning December 7th, a man in downtown Chicago looked up to see the body of crime novelist Eugene “Guy” Izzi dangling from a noose hung out his office window 14 floors above Michigan Avenue. Within minutes, police arrived at the office to find a scene littered with tantalizing clues.’ The 6-foot-tall burly writer of hard-boiled cops and gangster stories, a native of the tough city streets of Chicago, was now dead, hanging by the neck outside his office window. A noose had been tied four times around his neck and the other end of the rope tied to a desk leg inside the office. He was wearing a bullet-proof vest, brass knuckles, and had a can of mace-like spray on his person. His pockets were stuffed with $481 in cash. On the floor of his office lay a loaded but unfired .38 caliber pistol. In his office there were a series of handwritten notes, and some computer discs. It looked like suicide, or murder dressed up as suicide…

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0:00.0	A spectacular suicide or a murder.
0:03.4	Baffling last chapter to mystery writer's life, said the LA Times.
0:08.0	Novelist Public Death Creates Chicago Mystery, wrote the New York Times on December 1996,
0:14.3	and Patrick Rogers for People magazine said,
0:17.9	Eugene Issey has created another riddle in his own death.
0:22.3	No matter who was responsible, it was an exit scripted with a grim tabloid flourish.
0:28.0	On Saturday morning, December the 7th, a man in downtown Chicago looked up to see the body of
0:33.9	crime novelist Eugene Guy Izzy dangling from a noose hung out of his office window
0:39.5	14 floors above Michigan Avenue. Within minutes, police arrived at the office to find a scene
0:45.6	littered with tantalising clues. The six-foot, burly writer of hard-boiled cops and gangster stories,
0:53.2	a native of the tough city streets of Chicago,
0:56.3	was now dead, hanging by the neck outside his office window. A noose had been tied four
1:02.1	times around his neck and the other end of the rope tied to a desk inside the office. He was
1:07.9	wearing a bulletproof vest, brass knuckles, and had a can of mace-like sprain as person.
1:13.6	His pockets were stuffed with $481 in cash.
1:17.6	On the floor of his office lay a loaded but unfired 38-caliber pistol.
1:23.6	In his office there were a series of handwritten notes and some computer disks.
1:29.6	It looked like a suicide or murder, but his door was locked from the inside.
1:35.2	43-year-old Eugene Guy Izzy was born and bred in the Blue College Chicago neighborhood of Hedgewish.
1:42.0	His father, Eugene Gino Izzy, was a small-time gangster peddling
1:46.2	drugs to running a gambling den for the mob. In 1965, Gino was jailed for armed robbery. At the age of 16,
1:54.4	his son Eugene Guy dropped out of school and joined the army, where he served for two years.
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