The Untouchables

Chicago, March 1931. Eliot Ness and his men were doing raid after raid on Capone's speakeasies and breweries; his empir…

New York, 1931. While many people were unemployed and poor during the Depression, gangster-owned speakeasies and nightc…

Chicago. By the middle of 1933, Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had almost checked the manufacture and sale of whiskey …

New Jersey, the night of April 16, 1931. Waxey Gordon, the undisputed beer baron of New York, is muscling in on New Jer…

Chicago, late Spring 1932. There is public protest about the increase in drug addiction. Charlie Sebastino has amalgam…

Chicago, late Summer 1932.  Eliot Ness and his men had stemmed the supply of narcotics coming into the Windy City from A…

Detroit, August 1932. The notorious Purple Gang-- long synonymous with terror in beer, booze, labor and prostitution-- …

Chicago, September 8, 1932. That night, a convoy of 4 trucks, which had crossed the Canadian border, are driving toward…

New York, April 1931. Gangster Larry Fay, a former student of Al Capone, has his greasy fists firmly in the milk racket…

The night of May 3rd, 1934. A traveling carnival is at the Midway, 35 miles outside of Cleveland. There are half a doz…

May 8, 1931. The special U.S. mail train, coming from Rock Island, is stopped by emergency flares on the tracks in Hill…

Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (Disclaimer shown on screen) ""The events portrayed in this film are fictitious. The F…

Movie: ""The Alcatraz Express"" (continued) Sunday, August 19, 1934. At 2:30 a.m., the Big Train is backed into the p…

Chicago, December 1931. With Al Capone in prison, the bootlegging part of his empire was split in 2. One of Capone's l…

Chicago.  November 9, 1932.  Al Capone was in prison, and Frank Nitti was running his Organization.  But other crime ove…

On the night of May 25, 1931, 2 trucks are rolling into K.C., carrying $1-million worth of Jamaica Ginger rotgut, also k…

Summer 1931, Chicago.  Eliot Ness and his Untouchables had smashed most of the big breweries owned by the mobsters.  But…

September 8, 1934. A cruise ship from Cuba to New Jersey has caught fire. There are over 300 passengers on board; some…

1932. Just 3 weeks after Al Capone was convicted on the ironic charge of income tax evasion, the Justice Department in …

Mid-October 1932. The nation's attention is on the election campaign between incumbent president Herbert Hoover and his…

April 11, 1932. Millionaire building contractor Thomas B. Randall is the target of a kidnapping; he is throwing a party…

November 1932. FDR was moving to end Prohibition, and the crime syndicate was already shifting away from booze to narco…

October 11, 1932.  Chicago.  Less than one month before the elections, David Mantley, running for State's Attorney on th…

Ring of Terror-- Boxing ring, that is. July 1931, the Chicago Sports Arena was like a hundred other boxing rings across…

Autumn 1934. An armored truck, loaded with the special paper used in printing U.S. currency, is headed for the Bureau o…

Chicago, last week of April 1933. Frank Nitti is offered a huge quantity of Chinese opium. Ever since the government h…

New York, 1933. Racketeers are poking their greasy fists into every corner of the nation's business. The Fulton fish m…

September 16, 1933. Although Eliot Ness had successfully destroyed The Underground Court (episode # 46), he had not sma…

Chicago, April 25, 1932. With Capone in prison doing his rap for income tax evasion, his 8 lieutenants are running thin…

Chicago, the 3rd week of November 1932. Working on an anonymous tip, Eliot Ness and his men raid a warehouse; all the c…

Chicago, Summer 1931. Nick Acropolis is the new bookmaker in town, his territory is Illinois and the 6 surrounding stat…

Chicago, April 1932. The city is ruled by underworld czars, one of the toughest of which is Nate Kester, former henchma…