Charles Nicoletti

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Charles "Chuckie" Nicoletti , aka "The Typewriter", "Chuckie Typewriter" (born December 3, 1916 , probably in Chicago , † March 29, 1977 in Northlake , Illinois ), was a hitman for the Chicago outfit under the mob boss Sam "Mooney" Giancana .

Life

Early years

Nicoletti's father came from Santa Caterina Villarmosa in Sicily . Nicoletti grew up in an impoverished and broken family in Chicago . He dropped out of school and killed his own father, Philip Nicoletti, at the age of 12. His father brutally beat his mother up and Charles was acquitted for justified self-defense . Nicoletti joined the youth gang Forty-Two Gang , where he met the later outfit members Giancana, Sam "Teets" Battaglia , Lew Farrell , "Mad Sam" DeStefano and William "Willie Potatoes" Daddano .

Killer for the outfit

In the late 1950s he was together with Felix "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio a well-known and feared hit man who carried out murder assignments for the Chicago underworld. They had a specially equipped car (referred to in the press as the "Hitmobil") in which weapons could be hidden. In 1962, Nicoletti participated in the torture and murder of 24-year-old Billy McCarthy. He, Alderisio and Anthony “Tony the Ant” Spilotro kidnapped McCarthy because he and Jimmy Miraglia had killed two associates of the outfit. To find out the second name - Jimmy Miraglia - they clamped McCarthy's head in a press and squeezed it so hard that one of his eyes popped out. McCarthy revealed the name and was murdered. This scene inspired Martin Scorsese in one of his torture scenes in the movie Casino .

Nicoletti is said to have worked with the FBI once in the 1960s , but later refused to cooperate. He is said to have committed more than 20 murders during his career as a professional killer.

death

On March 29, 1977, he was shot three times in the back of the head while in his car in a parking lot in Northlake , Illinois , and died in the hospital six hours later. The background was never determined. It is speculated that the outfit was behind the murder because it was feared he would become a Pentito . Other theories include an act of revenge by the Milwaukee mob . Nicoletti was buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Chicago.

literature

  • Warren Hinckle and William W. Turner, The Fish is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro , New York: Harper & Row, 1981, ISBN 0-06-038003-9
  • Robert J. Groden and Harrison Edward Livingstone, High Treason , New York: Berkley Books, 1990, ISBN 0-425-12344-8
  • Jim Marrs , Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy , New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990, ISBN 0-88184-648-1
  • Sam and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America , New York: Warner Books, 1992, ISBN 0-446-51624-4
  • William Roemer, Jr., The Enforcer , 1994
  • Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia , New York: Da Capo Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
  • Richard Belzer and David Wayne, Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination , New York: Skyhorse Publishing 2013, ISBN 978-1-62087-807-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sifakis (2005), p. 177
  2. ↑ Roemer (1994), p. 28
  3. ↑ Roemer (1994), p. 32, 158
  4. ^ William F. Roemer, Jr .: Accardo: The Genuine Godfather ; 1995; P. 292
  5. ^ William F. Roemer, Jr .: Accardo: The Genuine Godfather ; 1995; Pp. 291-292
  6. ↑ Roemer (1994), pp. 158f.
personal data
SURNAME Nicoletti, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicoletti, Chuckie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hit man
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Chicago
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1977
Place of death Northlake , Illinois