Lindsey Graham

She begged them to send someone over as fast as possible.

The desk sergeant on duty thought she sounded hysterical and might be exaggerating, but he dispatched an officer to check things out anyway.

At 10.45 a.m., Sergeant Thomas Loftus arrived on scene.

He'd been in the station when Jeanette Lansman's call-in come in.

But the station's two patrol cars had been in use, so he had to hitch a ride in the truck of a telephone repairman who'd been working at the station.

But almost exactly at the same time Loftus was dropped off, one of the station's patrol officers pulled up, having heard the call over the radio.

Together, Loftus and the other officer approached the garage.

They could hear the dog barking and growling inside, and as they pushed open the door, Loftus was immediately hit by the smell of fresh blood.

Not far from the door, Loftus could see a man, laying in a pool of blood, a snub-nosed revolver by his side.

In the back of the room, there were six more men.

One was sprawled across a chair, the other five were on the floor.

Their bodies were riddled with bullets, and there was blood everywhere.

Most shockingly, two of the men's skulls were blown completely off.

It was clear that whoever had killed these men had shot them at close range with powerful submachine guns.

In the dim light of the garage, Loftus could see there was something on the walls and floor mixed in with the blood, but couldn't tell exactly what it was.

After a moment, he realized it was brain matter, and he staggered backwards, gagging.

After 40 years on the police force, Loftus had seen plenty of dead bodies, including over the past several years since Tommy Guns had come to Chicago.

But this crime scene was different.

He'd never seen this many victims with these kind of injuries all in one place.

It looked like these men had been lined up against the wall and shot execution style.