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Adam "Eddie" Richetti (August 5, 1909 – October 7, 1938) was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early 1930s, both he and Floyd later being implicated in the Kansas City Massacre in 1933.
The police arrested Adam Richetti, the suspected shooter in the massacre, in Wellsville, Ohio, after a shootout that followed a car accident in 1934. Richetti was tried, found guilty, and executed in 1938.
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The Kansas City Massacre involved the attempt by Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd, Vernon Miller and Adam Richetti to free their friend, Frank Nash, a federal prisoner. At the time, Nash was in the custody of several law enforcement officers who were returning him to the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, from which he had escaped on October ...
The FBI launched an intensive search for Nash which extended over the entire U.S. and parts of Canada. Evidence gathered by the FBI indicated that Nash had assisted in the escape of seven prisoners from the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth on December 11, 1931. The investigation also disclosed Nashs close association with Francis L. Keating, Thomas...
On their way to Kansas City, Floyd and Richetti had been detained at Bolivar, Missouri early on the morning of the 16th, when the car in which they were riding became disabled. While the two were waiting in a local garage for the necessary repairs to the car, Sheriff Jack Killingsworth entered the building. Richetti, who immediately recognized the ...
Upon leaving Union Station, the lawmen, with their captive, paused briefly; again seeing nothing that aroused their suspicion, they proceeded to Caffreys Chevrolet. Frank Nash was handcuffed throughout the trip from the train to the Chevrolet, which was parked directly in front of the east entrance of Union Station.
Agent Caffrey unlocked the right door of the Chevrolet. When the door was opened, Nash started to get into the back seat; however, Agent Lackey told Nash to get into the front of the car. Lackey then climbed into the back of the car directly behind the drivers seat. Agent Smith sat beside him in the center of the back; and Chief Reed sat beside Smi...
After fleeing from the Kansas City Massacre, Floyd and Richetti made their way to Toledo, Ohio, where they met Beulah, also known as Juanita, and Rose Baird in early September 1933. From there the four traveled to Buffalo, New York. On September 21, 1933, Floyd and Beulah Baird, using the names of Mr. and Mrs. George Sanders, and Richetti and Rose ...
In October 1934, the couples agreed to return to Oklahoma. Rose Baird was given money to purchase a car, and she bought a Ford sedan which was to carry them west.
The four began the trip early on October 20, with Floyd driving. A few hours later, near Wellsville, Ohio, he skidded the automobile into a telephone pole. Floyd and Richetti removed their firearms from the vehicle and remained on the outskirts of the town, while Rose and Beulah Baird took the damaged car into a Wellsville garage for repairs.
The Wellsville, Ohio, Police Chief, J. H. Fultz, following up on reports that two suspicious-looking men were seen on the outskirts of town, found the two resting in a wood tract of land nearby. A gun battle ensued. Chief Fultz apprehended Richetti after Richetti had emptied his gun at the officer. Floyd escaped, but the police chief thought Floyd ...
As the officers reached Floyd, he said, Im done for; youve hit me twice. They took the pistol from his hand and also seized a second gun that he carried in his belt. Then two FBI agents left to summon an ambulance to take Floyd to a hospital. They were accompanied by a local citizen who had witnessed the encounter. Two other local citizens, includi...
Adam Richetti, following his apprehension, was returned to Kansas City, Missouri and on March 1, 1935, was indicted by the Jackson County Grand Jury on four counts of murder in the first degree. His trial, predicated on the indictment charging him with the murder of Frank E. Hermanson, one of the police officers killed in the Kansas City Massacre, ...
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. (/P)— Adam Richetti, last survivor of a desperate trio which terrorized the midwest a few years ago, was executed in Missouri’s lethal gas chamber early today for his part in the 1933 'Kansas City Union station massacre of four officers and their prisoner.
The FBI arrested Adam Richetti. The Kansas City massacre was the shootout and murder of four law enforcement officers and a criminal fugitive at the Union Station railroad depot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of June 17, 1933.
9. Jan. 2020 · (JP) Adam Richetti, last survivor of three desperadoes who terrorized the Midwest a few years ago, was executed in Missouri's lethal gas chamber early today for his part In the 1933 Kansas City...
Indictment for Criminal Case No. 12777: United States vs. Adam Richetti, Defendant. Richetti is charged with assaulting state and federal officers and attempting to free Frank Nash from custody as part of the Union Station Massacre.
