Charles Nicoletti, known as "Chuckie the Typewriter", was an American mobster of the Chicago Outfit, who served as hitman under boss Sam Giancana before and after Giancana's rise and fall.
13 Facts About Charles Nicoletti
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Charles Nicoletti was the second son of two sons to Philip Nicoletti and Grace Alessi, Italian immigrants from Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Sicily, Italy.
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On February 25,1929, at the age of 12, Nicoletti shot his father four times, allegedly in self-defense.
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Charles Nicoletti's father who was a drunkard, attacked Charles and pursued him with a knife, he ran into his father's room, where a gun was kept in a bureau drawer.
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Two days later, Charles Nicoletti was exonerated by the Cook County coroner.
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Charles Nicoletti dropped out of school in eighth grade and soon joined the Forty-Two Gang.
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In 1962, Charles Nicoletti took part in an infamous torture case.
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In 2010, Playboy magazine published an article by Hillel Levin in which Nicoletti was implicated in the assassination of President John F Kennedy by James Files, an inmate within the Illinois Department of Corrections, and Chauncey Marvin Holt.
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On March 29,1977, Charles Nicoletti was shot three times in the back of his head while waiting in his Oldsmobile in the parking lot of the Golden Horns Restaurant in suburban Northlake, Illinois.
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Charles Nicoletti was brought to the Northlake Community Hospital, where he died six to seven hours later.
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Charles Nicoletti's car was never turned off and consequently overheated and caught on fire, causing initial incorrect press reports that his car was firebombed.
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Charles Nicoletti was due to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations at the time of his death.
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Charles Nicoletti is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.