Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault

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Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault

A shooting range? Ornate rooms and secret vaults? The things we see fill us with awe and mystery as Geraldo and team take us through a well-researched history of Capone, one of the nation’s most notorious mobsters. What lies in the vault? Today, in 2015, Al Capone’s net worth would exceed 1 billion dollars as he employed hundreds of gangsters to run his terrifying criminal empire. We wonder now as well as then the things he stored under one of his favorite hideouts at the Lexington Hotel.  Live on location with a demolition crew Geraldo Rivera starts with taking down the outer wall, as the country watches.

 

 

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Partial Transcript

Hello again everyone and welcome to the old Lexington Hotel, where 60 years ago, during the height of the roaring 20s and prohibition this once lavish buildling belonged, or was the headquarters for the notorious gangster Al Capone.  Directly beneath me, in this hotel’s rubble-strewn basement, a massive concrete chamber has been discovered and there is evidence to suggest that that vault once belonged to Al Capone, the richest and most powerful gangster of his time.  Now what if anything that vault contains we don’t know.  This is an adventure you and I are going to be taken together, but one way or the other, the mystery of Don Capone will be solved tonight.  We’re gonna break open that vault, we’re going to step inside.  We’re also going to step back into history.

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