NBC 5 Chicago’s nationally-renowned Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist Chuck Goudie is set to reveal answers in one of the biggest mysteries in Chicago crime history when he unveils the killer of legendary mob boss Sam “Momo” Giancana in an unprecedented, two-part NBC 5 Investigates series – “Who Killed Momo?” – airing Wednesday, May 14 (Part I) and Thursday, May 15 (Part II) on NBC 5 News at 10 p.m.
Born in Chicago in 1908, Sam “Momo” Giancana, as a teenager no less, quickly earned the attention of the powerful, Al Capone-founded Chicago Outfit, an unshakable crime syndicate Giancana eventually joined in the late 1930s. Giancana’s rise to organized crime dominance, along with national notoriety, took hold in the late 1950s when he became the boss of the Outfit, which was followed by years of conspiracies linking Giancana and his associates to a number of high-profile crimes, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
After serving a year in prison for a contempt of court conviction, Giancana fled to Mexico in 1966, but was deported back to the U.S. just eight years later, returning to Chicago. In 1975, while residing in his Oak Park home, a then 67-year-old Giancana was cooking up a midnight snack on a late spring evening when he invited in an associate who turned out to be a hitman…