Title: Six black businessmen lost their life in Chicago. Why?.

Dates: 1971 - 1972

Overview: Each of the victima were shot in the back of the head, execution style. And they were all indeed black..

Status: Cold Case.

Chicago black murders

Initially described in media reports as the murders of six black businessman Chicago's string of brutal homicides in 1971 to 1972 had several things in common: all victims were indeed black males; each was shot in the back of the head, execution style; and all were dumped in the muddy South branch of the Chicago River. Those points aside, the crime more similarity: all six remains unsolved today..

TC. Wilson was the first to die, in September 1971. Employed as a laborer in a meet packing plant, Wilson worked a shift from 4 PM to Midnight. After driving a coworker home around 1 AM on September two, and Wilson started for home that never arrived. His car was recovered later that day; Wilson's body, with hands bound and a bullet in his brain, was dragged from the river or days later. Robbery was suggested as a possible motive, Wilson carried only three dollars on the night he died. .

William Thomas, a baggage handler at O'Hare Airport, habitually traveled with 200 or 300 in his pocket to cope with emergencies. On the night of November four, 1971, he called home and told his wife he would be working late. Around 9:30 PM Thomas picked up an employee's airline pass to Florida and disappeared. The pass, was in his car when police found it abandoned, on November seven. Thomas bound and shot like Lee Ann Wilson before him, was pulled from the Chicago River on December twelve, 1971...

Meanwhile the elusive killer had found his third victim. The cab driver with his own taxi, forty-seven-year-old Albert Short was off duty and cruising the bars when he vanished on November seventeen, 1971. The victim's Cadillac was found the next day; his lifeless body was pulled from the river on November twenty-one..

Burnell Lolo, though unemployed, was flush with 900 dollars from a recent insurance settlement when he disappeared on November twenty-six, 1971. His body, sans cash, was retrieved from the Chicago River on December thirteen, one day after Wilson surfaced.

Lieutenant Scott, his name, not a military rank, was the first victims actually qualified by normal standards as a businessman. A partner in a local snack shop, he withdrew 2000 dollars from a pension on on the afternoon of December 13, 1971, and vanish the same evening. Scott's car was found on December Four, his body hauled ashore on New Year's day.

The final victim in the murder series was twenty-eight-year-old Richard Teen, a partner in a television sales and service business. He left home around Midnight on January two, 1972, carrying 2000 dollars earmarked for building contractor he was scheduled to meet the next morning. Teen missed that appointment, and his car was recovered on January six, near Chicago's notorious Green housing project. FBI agents entered the case when an anonymous caller demanded 11,000 dollars ransom from Teen's father, but no one showed up to collect the playoff, and he was pulled from the river on February five, 1972.

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