The Welcome back, everyone to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries podcast.

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

And it's great to be with you today as we cover some history that the state of Missouri would like to forget.

Today's story is a lesser-known piece of Americana, which owns a gruesome record in American crime annals.

The event is called the Young Brothers Massacre and sometimes

called the Brookline Massacre. The Young Brothers Massacre was a gun battle which occurred outside

of Brookline, Missouri, which is now part of Republic, Missouri, in the Ozarks region on the afternoon

of January 2nd, 1932, during the period known as the public enemy era,

thanks to the FBI's registering of the worst offenders in numerical order, beginning with

public enemy number one, who at the time was Scarface Al Capone, who earned the number one

rating by ordering the killing of seven members of Chicago's North Side

Gang on February 14, 1929, a Chicago massacre that will long be remembered is the Valentine's Day

massacre. Four of Capone's henchmen, two dressed as cops, lined up competing gang members

against a wall and machine gun them to death.

Capone would later go to prison for income tax evasion and stayed there through his death.

The Young Brothers gun battle resulted in the deaths of six law enforcement officers, making it the worst gun-related killing of U.S. police officers to this day.

Just this past year, the property on which those killings occurred was demolished.

The owner burned it all down intentionally and had the scrapwood removed so that no trace

was left of that house and outbuildings.

Maybe to remove the memories, or maybe to remove the ghosts of the men killed there.

Memories run deep in the Ozarks.

Here's the story, and with this story comes from family background,

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