Chicago Crime Boss Tony Accardo Murders Ten After His Home is Burgled of Cash, Gold & Diamonds January 6, 1978
(www.youtube.com)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uws5OvaEQ0One time Accardo associate John Mendell who was blamed for the heist was the first to go disappearing on January 15, his body was found weeks later in the trunk of his car, stabbed and strangled to death.
Five days after Mendell went missing his second in charge Bernard “Buddy” Ryan, was discovered dead behind the wheel of his car with four bullet holes in the back of his head, Ryan’s right-hand man Stevie Garcia made it until February 2, when he popped up as “trunk music” at the Sheraton Hotel next to O’Hare International Airport.
February 4 Vince Moretti the burglary crew’s fence for all of the stolen property, along with a small time crook friend of his named Don Renno were lured to a bar in Cicero, Illinois and beaten and stomped to death, Renno had nothing to do with the robbery he simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The final two members of Mendell’s crew Bobby Hertogs and Johnny McDonald, met their own gruesome fate in April the same year, Hertogs was found in the trunk of his car he had been badly beaten and had his throat slit, McDonald was shot in the back of the head his body dumped in an alley.
In order to cover his tracks and cut ties from the purge he set in motion, Accardo turned his wrath toward his own inner circle, and the execution squad he had dispatched to do his bidding.
In October Accardo’s houseboy native Sicilian Mike Volpe, vanished weeks after testifying in front of a grand jury investigating the slayings linked to the January break in. Accardo even bumped off the architect who designed the house, out of suspicion that he had shared the blueprints with the FBI.
Months later Anthony “Little Tony” Borsellino and Gerald “Jerry the Dinger” Carusiello were slain with bullets to the back of the head, Borselino and Carusiello had participated in the murders of the burglary crew, Borselino was a member of the notorious westside “Wild Bunch,” a group of enforcers tasked with the Outfit’s most difficult jobs, Carusiello was a driver and bodyguard for Accardo’s street boss Joseph “Joey Doves” Aiuppa.
Nobody was ever arrested for any of the murders, Volpe’s eyeglasses were recovered from a safe inside the residence during a raid years later, but his body has never been unearthed. The Big Tuna himself died peacefully in 1992, having served close to a half-century at the helm of the Outfit and never doing any significant time behind bars.
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