Lindsey Graham

You know what I think?

It was vicious and cold-blooded.

Only Capone kills like that.

You scribble down the quote in your notebook and bolt for the door.

That's it.

Thanks, Bugs.

You have to rush back to Chicago to get this story filed.

Bugs Moran going on the record and accusing Capone is big news.

So big that you wonder if this might be the break that cracks the case.

After a reporter managed to track Bugs Moran down in a local hospital where he was hiding out feigning the flu, Moran made a shocking statement.

He all but accused his rival Al Capone of orchestrating the massacre at the Clark Street garage, and Moran's quote about Capone caused an immediate stir.

But little did Moran know, Capone had an airtight alibi for the day of the massacre.

Capone was in Miami, Florida.

He bought a house on Palm Island the previous summer and had been spending significant time there.

Back in Chicago, the investigations into the massacre dragged on with little progress, and the city's elite grew impatient with the inability of local law enforcement to bring order.

So within a month of the shooting, Colonel Robert McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune, gathered a small group of businessmen and traveled to Washington, D.C.

There, they secured a meeting with President Herbert Hoover.

McCormick and the others told the president that crime was out of control in their city and that the local government was too corrupt to make meaningful change.

They argued that only the federal government, who were outside the influence of the gangsters, could bring order to the city.

They pressured the president for help, even suggesting he send troops to Chicago.