To police surveying the bloody scene at the Democratic Club on Truman Road, it appeared that 41-year-old Charles Binaggio either hadn’t suspected a thing or had little chance to react. His body was slumped in a swivel chair where he had been enjoying a smoke just moments before an assassin pumped four .32-caliber slugs into his face. The body of Charles Gargotta, Binaggio’s 49-year-old bodyguard, was lying near the front door. Gargotta may have been trying to make a run for it when the gunmen shot him in the back of the head. The murders, on April 6, 1950, shook the ...