The Valentine’s Day Massacre was a ghastly crime that has nothing at all to do with romantic day that it was named after, other than the date of February 14. The Valentine’s Day Massacre was the gangland slaying of members of the Bugsy Moran gang in a Chicago garage, attributed to rival gangster Alphonse (Al) Capone.
It was on Valentine’s Day in 1929 that Chicago was marked with the gangland violence of criminal warfare. Called the ghastliest crime in Chicago’s history, the multiple murders were part of a gangland war between the Bugsy Moran Gang and notorious Al Capone, later dubbed “Public Enemy Number One. “
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website contains about 140 pages of copied documents, notes and newspaper clippings recording the historic event as it unfolded to the public. The gangland crime was not under Federal jurisdiction, so the FBI did not investigate the crime. The Chicago Police Department conducted the investigation into the mass murder.
