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Bits of what appear to be red paint remain at Al Capone’s gravesite and plot at Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery in Hillside, IL, Sunday, November 27, 2022. Anthony Vazquez/ Sun-Times.
Al Capone's gravestone was defaced last week - as vandals graffitied the word 'evil' on the notorious mobster's resting place in bright red letters. The defaced grave was discovered at around 1pm ...
Al Capone's grave was found with the red lettering spray-painted reading 'evil' in capital lettering across it at around 1pm last Wednesday (November 23) at the Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery ...
Capone often used Al Brown as an alias — as late as 1927, the Tribune would still refer to him by this name — so there’s a strong possibility that this was Al Capone, who’d just turned 22.
Al Capone got an icy reception when he arrived in Miami Beach in 1928. Whether he was winter-weary like other Northern tourists was immaterial; Miami saw him as a blight on its reputation. By 1928 ...
On a line near the very bottom of a 1927 page appeared a terse “Al Capone Chicago,” penned in a style of cursive that Adams said is indicative of the 1920s.