Suspect
Fred Burke
- Born
- 29 May 1893
- Died
- 10 July 1940, aged about 47
- Record
- Wikidata Q1929781 · Wikipedia
Suspect in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Former Egan's Rats gunman; two Thompsons found at his Michigan home in 1929 were matched to the massacre. Imprisoned for life for killing a Michigan policeman.
1929–1931 · 2122 North Clark Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois · Unsolved
Seven men lined against a garage wall in Chicago, 1929. Gunmen dressed as police. Capone blamed by everyone, charged with nothing. Nobody was ever tried. Read the case.
Dated events
Fred Burke kills patrolman Charles Skelly in St. Joseph, Michigan; Thompsons later found at his home are matched to the massacre.
Burke is captured near Green City, Missouri, and returned to Michigan, where he is sentenced to life for Skelly's murder.
Byron Bolton, under FBI questioning, names Burke, Goetz, Winkler, Nugent and Carey as the killers; no one is charged.