This was a huge story in the early 1980s in Chicago. Ken Eto was a mob gambling boss who survived three gunshots to the head--the bullets bounced off his skull--then walked into a pharmacy where he had the druggist call an ambulance.
"The Outfit," as the mob in Chicago is known, wanted Eto dead because they feared he would testify against them. With little to lose after his brush with death, he did just that, and lived in protective custody until two years ago. His death was revealed earlier today.
As I recall, the men sent to kill Eto used a .22 caliber gun. A more powerful weapon would've succeeded in killing Eto, which the two hitmen thought about with regret for a few days, before they ended up stuffed into the trunk of a car.
Their hitmen finished the job.
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3 comments:
I witnessed ken eto sit with his killers at elloitts restraunt in lyons illinois only hours before he was shotin the head in chicago, lyons illinois police lt robert sullivan and richard husarik ordered jasper campise and john gatuso to shoot eto in the head and leave body on west side of chicago so blacks would be blamed for the crimedi
When will the FBI investigate and charge Robert Sullivan and Richard Husarik for their crimes in the failed Ken Eto hit and their participation in the unsolved murders of Jasper Campise and John Gattuso. Ted McNamara is or was interested in the new facts of the unsolved case as of 2008 but remains confused. Gerald Goldman was a witness 727-277-2925 call him.
Eto, himself, said the hit was
ordered by South Side capo
Vince "Innocent" Solano. Campise
and Gattuso fucked up, hence their
demise, by using old shells.
Gerardo from Jersey.
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