American Hauntings Podcast

Al Capone returned to Chicago in 1930, not knowing that the next year was going to be a series of one unfortunate event after another. He had no way of knowing that one of the first pieces of bad news that he received was an omen of things to come – that his brother Ralph -- who had been in charge of operations when he was at Eastern State Penitentiary – had just been indicted for income tax evasion. 
As far as Capone was concerned, this was one of the stupidest things he’d ever heard. Who gets convicted of not paying taxes? Murder, racketeering, gambling, bootlegging – those were crimes for which a gangster went to prison. Nobody gets locked up for a bookkeeping error, right?
Capone had no idea at that moment that this was the beginning of the end. Death and taxes, as they say, can’t be avoided by anyone.

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In August 1882, three men were found murdered on a farm near Mount Pulaski, Illinois. Charles McMahon and his two hired hands, John Carlock and Robert Matheny, had been bound, gagged, and killed. Fear spread as neighbors searched for answers.

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In May of 1929, a new inmate arrived at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Eastern State was no ordinary prison – it was the oldest in America, created by the Quakers who believed that if a lawbreaker had time to contemplate his crimes, he might become penitent for his misdeeds.  
And the new inmate was no ordinary prisoner. He was the most famous gangster in America. His name was Al Capone, and his arrival at Eastern State was widely reported in the press. But what wasn’t so widely reported was that he had brought someone else with him to the penitentiary.   
But it was someone that no one else seemed able to see.  In the darkest hours of the night, other inmates reported hearing Capone screaming in his cell, begging someone he called "Jimmy" to go away and leave him alone. No one had any idea what he was talking about.  
Capone was alone in his cell.  Or was he?

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On August 10, 2022, Jami Hawkins was found dead inside her Decatur, Illinois, home from a gunshot wound. What followed was an investigation that left her family with more questions than answers.
Although investigators treated her death as a suicide, a coroner's jury ultimately ruled the manner of death undetermined.
Now, more than four years later, Jami's family is speaking out, hoping to bring renewed attention to the circumstances surrounding her death.
In this special episode of American Dread, we take a closer look at the investigation, examine police reports and original 911 recordings, and explore the unanswered questions that have haunted her family ever since.

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Chicago – in the most Chicago way possible – memorialized the SMC CARTAGE COMPANY on Clark Street. Crowds had flocked the scene of the crime in the minutes, hours, and days after the massacre took place and they hung around for a couple of weeks after the bodies had been wrapped up in sheets and had been carted away in ambulances. They snuck in the back door and walked off with souvenirs – stray bullet casings, bloody handkerchiefs, empty pop bottles, and dirty, oil-stained rags that Johnny May had tossed aside after wiping off an engine part. They wanted anything that could keep, anything they could tell a story about later on. 
They just didn’t realize that physical reminders wouldn’t be all that was left behind – there would be the hauntings, too.

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