Includes index

A killing between friends -- The surprise letter -- "We gotta put somebody in a hole" -- Witness of a lifetime -- "Don't make any plans" -- United States vs. the Chicago outfit -- "You do it" -- This is not the Sopranos -- Testimony and tapes -- "This is a robbery" -- Alva and Emma -- "Strangers in the night" -- A son against his father -- Nick -- A killer tells his tale -- Explosion on the Tollway -- "If I give up by brothers" -- From Cicero to Las Vegas -- One and two -- The beak, the oven, and the dentist -- Joey -- Cross-examination -- Frank Sr. -- Twan -- Closing arguments -- End of a trial, end of an era -- Chronology

Painting a picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this title portrays some of the cold-blooded--and sometimes incompetent--killers and their crimes