Clues Surface In Wall Murder

Ferdie Pacheco on Charlie Wall's Trial

Ferdie Pacheco talks about attending Charlie Wall’s testimony during the Kefauver Commission in the early ’50s. Not only a world-class artist and published author, Ferdie is known by many for his role as Muhammad Ali’s fight doctor.

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie Wall’s Autopsy Records

In April, 1955, someone committed one of the most famous crimes in the history of Florida: the murder of old kingpin Charlie Wall. Wall was in his 70s and semi-retired from the rackets. Back back in the 20s, 30s and even 40s, Wall ruled the Cigar City through rum-running, whores and a Cuban lottery called bolita. Most believed Wall had became too loose in his talk at the downtown bars he frequented. Witnesses were interviewed and suspects questions but even 50 years later, this crime remains officially unsolved. Now for the first time, check out the records that have only been accessible to detectives.

Sealed for more than half a century, read the actual results of kingpin Charlie Wall.

• Download the report in pdf format (680 kb pdf)

Crime Scene Photos

NOTE: Original crime scene photos were destroyed years ago and all that's left are badly reproduced photocopies. Still, you get to see the evidence the detectives used.

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The Body	The Footprint	The Baseball Bat

 
Detectives' Notebooks

• The Incident Report (100 kb pdf)
• Wildcard Hitman (472 kb pdf)