Ness's Raid in Al Capone Brewery

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In March of 1931, Elliot Ness planned a very big raid. He and his men began tailing not the beer itself, but the barrels in which it was being delivered. They were able to do so when they realized that Al Capone was reusing his beer barrels. It was the first time Ness said that prisoners had been taken in a brewery raid.

In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had happened. Over the next several years, more bodies were discovered. Eventually, a coroner assembled something he called the “Torso Clinic” to work on the case. It was made up of about 30 people – doctors, professors, police officers, and a young Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness.

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