Double-Crossing Capone

Neil Root was born in London in 1971, Neil Root has published seven non-fiction books including Crossing the Line of Duty: How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad (longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction, 2020) The Murder Gang: Fleet Street’s Elite Group of Crime Reporters in the Golden Age of Tabloid Crime (longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, 2018), Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence, Frenzy! How the Tabloid Press Turned Three Evil Serial Killers into Celebrities, Twentieth Century Spies and Cold-Blooded Evil.

Additionally, Neil Root has written news and feature articles on a variety of crime and justice topics for UK national newspapers and magazines including the BBC News Magazine, Press Gazette, The Justice Gap and Inside Justice, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star Sunday, Sunday People, Gay Times, Real Crime, Red Herrings, The New Voice, Police Professional, as well as on his Substack platform Crime Waves. He has also contributed to several true crime documentaries as a talking head, a podcast and a crime talk show.

Alongside his writing career, he has worked as an English teacher and lecturer in the UK, several European countries, and the Middle East.

Mario Gomes was born in Montreal, Canada in 1965, Mario Gomes always had a fascination with the 1920's era whenever it appeared on TV. He once fell upon The Untouchables and reconnected with the later 1987 movie. He was so enthralled by the characters that he decided to research real-life subjects. He was not disappointed, as this led to a longer than three-decade search uncovering new info, while busting myths along the exciting journey.

Whether it be images, information or collecting, his world-renowned website www.myalcaponemuseum.com has led him to being sought out for his expertise with the correct info relating to Capone and his era. Since its first inception in 2000, he has participated in scores of documentaries, books, newspaper and magazine articles through research and providing images, including for the seminal Ken Burns docuseries Prohibition in 2011. Mario Gomes has also personally appeared on History Channel documentaries such as History Hardcore Home and Bunker / Al Capone, 2005, and Man, Moment, Machine / Al Capone & The Machine Gun Massacre, 2006.

In 2020, he was mentioned in the New York Post when he uncovered that Al Capone had his own baseball team for a short while in Brooklyn. He came upon the new and exciting info as he was trying to uncover the real date of Capone's face slashing. He also corrected that myth of a story! Besides knowledge and expertise in this field, he has amassed many historical items from the Chicago gangster era with many of them personally belonging to the granddaddy of all gangsters, Alphonse "Scarface" Capone. Through his collection, he is often sought out for his knowledge and expertise in identifying real items connected to Al Capone and his era. His collection was mentioned in Centennial's 2022 magazine issue Al Capone, 75 years later. He is also a close friend to Al Capone's living relatives and Capone's rival's relatives which gives him a perspective from all sides.

He currently lives in Montreal and works as an optical technician.

Contents

Prologue 1: The Southwest Side of Chicago, November 8, 1939, 3.20 pm

Prologue 2: Northeastern Federal Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1939

Part 1: Before Chicago

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Part 2: Doing Business with Big Al

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Part 3: The Double-Cross

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Part 4: Serve it Cold

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements