Torrio founded Chicago Outfit and mentored young Al Capone On this date in 1957... Chicago Tribune May 8, 1957 Johnny Torrio, seven...

On this date in 1931... U.S. Mafia boss of bosses Giuseppe Masseria was shot to death in a back room at Gerardo Scarpato's Nuova Villa...

One hundred years ago today, the St. Louis-based Egan's Rats mob committed their first bank robbery of note in the North St. Louis neigh...

On this date in 1913: Crime figure Amadeo Buonomo died of a gunshot wound to the throat on April 6, 1913, a casualty of the 1910s underwor...