1. Adam "Eddie" Richetti was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber.
14 Facts About Adam Richetti
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Adam Richetti 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.
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Adam Richetti was born in Strawn, Texas, on August 5,1909, and moved with his family to Lehigh, Oklahoma three years later.
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Adam Richetti had an older brother Joseph and a younger sister Eva.
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Adam Richetti was convicted and sentenced to serve 1 to 10 years at the Pendleton state reformatory, remaining there for two years, and paroled on October 2,1930.
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Adam Richetti managed to make it to Sulphur, Oklahoma before being arrested, only two hours after the robbery.
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Adam Richetti spent four months in prison before being granted release under a $15,000 bond pending appeal of his conviction.
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Adam Richetti finally reappeared on January 12,1933, to rob a bank in Ash Grove, Missouri of $3,000.
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Sometime prior to this, Adam Richetti met Pretty Boy Floyd who eventually became one of his closest confidants.
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Adam Richetti is believed by most modern crime historians to have had no active role in the Kansas City Massacre, the most popular story being sleeping off an all-night drinking binge at the time the shooting began.
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Adam Richetti was indicted for obstruction of justice on November 6,1934, however that charge was held in abeyance when he was officially charged with murder by Missouri state officials for his alleged role in the Kansas City Massacre.
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Adam Richetti's trial began on June 13,1935, during which time a number of eyewitnesses identified him and Floyd despite these witnesses having previously identified other suspects or had been unable to identify anyone at the time of the shooting two years earlier.
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Three days later, Adam Richetti was found guilty of the murder of police officer Frank Hermanson and sentenced to death.
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Adam Richetti was originally going to be hanged, but was instead executed in Missouri's newly constructed gas chamber on October 7,1938.