Murder timeline
June 21, 2007
Aug. 1970
Michael “Hambone” Albergo, an enforcer with the Outfit, is murdered after he’s charged in a loan-sharking scheme. Albergo had been subpoenaed to testify in an investigation of mob loansharking activity. Frank Calabrese Sr. allegedly was worried that Albergo could implicate him and other mobsters.
Sept. 27, 1974
Daniel Seifert is killed outside his Bensenville plastics factory. He was to testify against mobsters stealing money from a Teamsters fund. Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo and Frank Schweihs are accused of this murder.
June 24, 1976
Paul Haggerty is murdered in Chicago. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
March 15, 1977
Henry Cosentino is murdered in Chicago. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
January 16, 1978
John Mendell is murdered in Chicago. He allegedly led the burglary crew that robbed the home of Chicago's Outfit leader, Anthony Accardo. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
January 31, 1978
Donald Renno and Vincent Moretti are murdered in Cicero. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
July 2, 1980
Mob enforcer William Dauber and his wife, Charlotte, are gunned down in rural Will County because William Dauber was cooperating with authorities. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
December 30, 1980
Mobster William “Butch” Petrocelli is brutally murdered, his face mutilated with a blow torch. Frank Calabrese is accused of this murder.
June 24, 1981
Trucking executive Michael Cagnoni dies in a car bomb blast as his car enters the Hinsdale on-ramp onto I-290. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of this murder.
September 13, 1981
Nicholas D’Andrea is murdered in Chicago Heights. James Marcello is accused of this murder. D'Andrea was allegedly being beaten for information over the shooting of a mob boss when he died.
April 24, 1982
Mobsters blow up the van of Nicholas Sarillo Sr. as he is driving along on a road in Wauconda. He survives. Frank Calabrese Sr. and James Marcello are accused of this attempted murder.
July 23, 1983
Richard Ortiz and Arthur Morawski are killed in Cicero. Ortiz is killed because the mob believed he was dealing drugs and had committed an unapproved murder. Morawski was killed because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Frank Calabrese Sr. is accused of the murders.
June 6, 1986
Emil Vaci is murdered in Phoenix, Ariz. Frank Schweihs and Paul Schiro are accused of this murder.
June 14. 1986
The mob's man in Las Vegas, Anthony Spilotro and his brother Michael are lured to a Bensenville area where they are strangled to death. They are later buried in an Indiana cornfield. James Marcello is accused of this murder.
Sept. 14, 1986
John Fecarotta is killed outside a bingo hall on West Belmont by Nick Calabrese, who has pleaded guilty to the slaying. His brother, Frank Calabrese Sr., is accused of this murder.