St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Seven Men, Two Guns, No Convictions

Organized Crime History Uncovered · Oct 30, 2026 · 19m · transcript

On February 14, 1929, seven men were shot and killed inside a garage on Chicago’s North Clark Street. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre became one of the most infamous crimes of Prohibition-era America—and a case that never produced a conviction.This episode reconstructs the killings, the investigation, and the evidence that followed. We examine the victims’ connections to Bugs Moran’s North Side organization, the widespread suspicion surrounding Al Capone’s gang, and the ballistic comparisons that linked crime-scene evidence to two Thompson submachine guns later found in Michigan.But a weapon…