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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

Unsolved History · Season 2 · Episode 5
On February 14, 1929, four men armed with submachine guns cut down seven mobsters in Chicago. Ironically, this famous mob event spawned the Chicago crime lab, introducing ballistics, polygraph, chemical analysis and forensic pathology to police work.

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Season
2
Episode
5
Air Date
10/Feb/2004
Air Time
21:00
Runtime
60 min

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On February 14, 1929, four men armed with submachine guns cut down seven mobsters in Chicago. Ironically, this famous mob event spawned the Chicago crime lab, introducing ballistics, polygraph, chemical analysis and forensic pathology to police work.

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