Geraldo Rivera uncovered ‘The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults’ on live television 40 years ago
On April 21, 1986, television reporter Geraldo Rivera completed his final on-air shot in a live broadcast from the Chicago hotel where Prohibition-era Mob boss Al Capone supposedly had an underground vault. With 30 million viewers watching, the vault contained not much more than a couple of decades-old bottles and a cloud of dust. Afterward, sensing that critics would pounce, Rivera went on a bender, convinced his career was over. “He said he got tequila drunk across the street,” William Elliott Hazelgrove told The Mob Museum. Hazelgrove is the author of the newly released book, Capone’s Vault: The Real Story of the Biggest ...
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As Americans opened their newspapers on June 21, 1947, they saw large headlines about the murder of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel,…
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HBO Max series ‘Tokyo Vice’ explores Japan’s criminal underworld
A new television drama series, available in its entirety on HBO Max, focuses on organized crime in Japan, featuring a…
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Three charged in Hells Angels shooting of rival Vagos riders during Memorial Day weekend
It was supposed to be a peaceful motorcycle ride near Hoover Dam in honor of America’s war dead, followed by…
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