Richard Cain (October 5, 1931-December 20, 1973) was a notoriously corrupt Chicago police officer, ranking member of the Chicago Outfit and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. He has also been accused by several conspiracy theorists of his involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Born to an Irish-American father and an Italian-American mother in Chicago, Cain was raised in Chicago and Michigan after his parents divorced. He joi...
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Richard Cain (October 5, 1931-December 20, 1973) was a notoriously corrupt Chicago police officer, ranking member of the Chicago Outfit and a close associate of Mafia boss Sam Giancana. He has also been accused by several conspiracy theorists of his involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Born to an Irish-American father and an Italian-American mother in Chicago, Cain was raised in Chicago and Michigan after his parents divorced. He joined the Army at the age of 17 and served in the Virgin Islands from 1947 to 1950, becoming fluent in Spanish. Before returning to Chicago in 1951, he began his career as an investigator at the William J. Burns Detective Agency in Dallas.
He became involved with the Chicago Outfit by using his position as a security guard to arrange the hijacking of United Parcel Service trucks. Despite his grandfather having been a prominent sewer contractor who was killed by the mafia in Little Italy, Chicago, in 1928, Cain would later become a made man and a...
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