“THE (UNSOLVED?) ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: After more than 90 years, the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago still intrigues lovers of unsolved true crime stories. But is it really an unsolved case? We’ll look at the true story of the “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,” as told by the evidence and witnesses that we’ve always been told never existed.
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“The Unsolved St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” by Steve Shukis from Chicago True Crime (link no longer available)
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Stories and |
| 0:37.0 | content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners |
| 0:41.0 | and is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:43.0 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. When the bodies of seven men were found slaughtered by machine gun fire in a garage on North |
| 1:09.0 | Clark Street in Chicago in 1929, the entire nation took pause. |
| 1:15.0 | Even Chicagoans, calloused by the routine of gang violence, were stunned. |
| 1:21.0 | It was the bloodiest and deadliest assault in American organized crime |
| 1:25.7 | annals and would forever mark Chicago in the minds of the world as the home of gangland |
| 1:32.3 | murder. |
| 1:34.5 | While almost everyone has heard of the crime that would be known as the St Valentine's Day Massacre and is familiar with some basic facts that remains an aura of mystery as to who carried |
| 1:46.4 | it out. |
| 1:47.4 | Why and how? |
| 1:50.2 | As a casual observer, you might feel that other than knowing that Al Capone was the power behind it, |
| 1:57.0 | all the rest of what happened was more or less speculation. |
| 2:01.0 | After all, no one was ever tried, let alone convicted for the murders. |
| 2:07.0 | Too bad, there weren't eyewitnesses, or physical evidence like the murder weapons, or the car or cars that the killers drove, |
| 2:17.0 | something that could have been traced and scientifically examined. |
| 2:21.0 | But it turns out there were witnesses and they did find cars and guns and bullets which yielded genuine forensic evidence. |
| 2:35.0 | But wouldn't it be much clearer than if somebody had actually come forward to tell authorities |
| 2:40.5 | what had happened? |
| 2:42.0 | There had to be at least a dozen people involved in planning |
| 2:45.1 | and carrying out the crime. Even more who knew who the killers were. You'd think that someone |
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