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Thieves Robbed Tony Accardo’s House —He Didn’t Call The Police,He Left Their Bodies Stuffed In Car

Thieves Robbed Tony Accardo’s House — He Didn’t Call The Police, He Left Their Bodies Stuffed In Car Trunks Across Chicago. The date is January 6th, 1978. Chicago is buried under the Great Blizzard — wind chill forty below zero, streets paralyzed, silence absolute. In the affluent suburb of River Forest, at 1407 Ashland Avenue, the sprawling ranch-style mansion of Tony Accardo sits dark and unguarded. Accardo — known as “The Big Tuna,” known on the street as “Joe Batters” — is the 71-year-old undisputed chairman of the Chicago Outfit. He and his wife Clarice have escaped the winter for Indian Wells, California. A crew of four professional burglars — led by John Mendel, a career criminal both skilled and reckless — seizes the opportunity. They believe the old mob boss has gone soft. They have heard decades-old rumors of a walk-in vault filled with millions in cash, loose diamonds, and gold bars. On this frozen evening, they bypass the patrols, pick the lock, disable the alarm, and ransack the mansion room by room. They find no vault. No millions. They grab jade statues, cufflinks, loose jewelry, and a police scanner. They leave laughing into the blizzard, convinced they have pulled off the score of the century. They are wrong. Their crime is not measured in what they stole — it is measured in what they violated. Under the rigid, archaic code of the Chicago Outfit, the home is sacred. Business is done in the street. The home is the sanctuary. To violate it is not theft. It is desecration. It is an act of war.