Cómo Murieron Todos los Gánsteres Más Icónicos

How All the Most Iconic Gangsters Died The man who turned Chicago into his personal fiefdom, who ordered the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and who amassed an estimated $100 million fortune bootlegging during Prohibition, didn’t die in a hail of bullets in an alley. He wasn’t betrayed by a subordinate, nor was he executed by the Commission. Al Capone died in his bed, in a sun-drenched Florida mansion, his mind shattered and unable to remember the people around him. The man who terrorized an entire city was defeated by a bacterium that had been eating away at his brain from the inside for years. Capone contracted syphilis sometime in his youth, never treated it, and by the time he arrived at Alcatraz in 1934, the infection had reached the tertiary stage, the one that destroys the central nervous system.