Family Affair_Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia by Sam Giancana

Author:Sam Giancana [Giancana, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780425228319
Amazon: 0425228312
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2010-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

12.

Burial Blunders and Farm-Side Follies

Big John Pays the Price

Tony and Michael Spilotro were lying bludgeoned, battered, and very dead on the basement floor of Louie Eboli’s Bensenville home as the nearly dozen participants and witnesses in the vile slayings were slowly shuffling out the door and on their way. Some would go enjoy a hardy dinner after the exhausting execution, others would retreat to their suburban estates to spend the rest of the Saturday evening with their families. For these men, it was merely just another day at the office. However, even though the murder of the Spilotros was completed, there was still work to be done. The two bodies had to be buried, transported from Eboli’s house to a makeshift grave site somewhere far away from the Windy City suburbs. The duty of making certain this job got done as quickly and cleanly as possible fell upon Giovanni “Big John” Fecoratta, one of the Spilotros’ killers and a highly tenured Outfit enforcer and hit man from the Chinatown crew. A longtime leg breaker for the mob-controlled Local 8 of the Industrial Workers Union, Fecoratta was one of the La Pietra Brothers’ most trusted lieutenants.

Instructed to bury the bodies outside the state of Illinois in northern Indiana, Fecoratta called for the assistance of Albert Tocco. Tocco and his cleanup crew—named in FBI reports as Dominic “Tootsie” Palermo, Albert “Chickie” Roverio, and Nicholas “Jumbo” Guzzino, the younger brother of slain Outfit member Sam “The Gobber” Guzzino and imprisoned Outfit member Richard “Fat Richie” Guzzino, arrived at the Eboli residence shortly before sunset. With the help of Fecoratta, they loaded the two corpses into the back of a work van and took off headed across the state line to a predetermined site where they would dig the grave. Before they left, Fecoratta told Tocco to call him when the job was completed.

Driving approximately 60 miles past downtown Chicago, Tocco and his lieutenants found an isolated parcel of a cornfield in Enos, Indiana, parked their van, and began to dig. It was now after midnight and the sky was pitch black. Having dug only a few feet into the earth, the foursome of wiseguys, heard a car pull up by the side of the road. Thinking it was the police, they became scared and all ran off in different directions. Lucky for them, what they thought was a cop car was just a couple teenagers looking to score some marijuana plants they knew to be growing in that particular field. After some time passed, and the teenagers were long gone, Palermo, Roverio, and Guzzino returned to the grave site. Their boss, Albert Tocco, did not. He was lost in the vast Indiana cornfield and couldn’t find his way back.

Still spooked and thinking the police may be returning to the scene, Palermo, Roverio, and Guzzino hurriedly placed the Spilotro brothers’ corpses into the half-dug grave and covered it with dirt. They then got into the van and sped away, leaving Tocco behind to find his own way home.

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