Chilling new portraits of America’s deadliest gangsters – like Al Capone – who murdered hundreds in cold blood
Between them they ruled US cities with an iron grip making millions and enemies along the way
THESE are the chilling faces of America’s most notorious gangsters brought back to life in new "colourised" photographs.
The startling pictures have been published to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of mobster Charles ‘Lucky’ Lucciano’.
Striking portraits from the collection show infamous Al Capone, nicknamed Scarface, at the Chicago Detective bureau following his arrest in 1930.
Other images see Lucky Lucciano relaxing with one of his dogs in 1955 following his deportation to Naples.
Further shots show notorious bank robber John Dillinger following his arrest in September 1933 and Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel after he was taken in for questioning for murder in Hollywood, 1940.
Colourised pictures such as these are featured in author Michael D. Carroll’s new photo-book Retrographic, which is available to
Here are some of America's greatest public enemies...
Al 'Scarface' Capone
Without doubt the the most famous face in the rogue's gallery is Al 'Scarface' Capone He was the ruthless boss of the Chicago crime syndicate, widely thought to be responsible for the execution of seven men in the St Valentines Day Massacre. He was eventually arrested for tax evasion and imprisoned in 1933. He was released in 1939 and died at his home in 1947 .
Charles 'Lucky' Lucciano
Lucciano is considered by many to be the father of modern organised crime after setting up"The Syndicate" in 1931, which brought together each of the five bosses of American crime families in New York. Imprisoned in 1937, Lucciano cooperated with the American government due to his Italian connections during the Second World War, with his sentence being commuted in 1946 on the condition he did not resist deportation to Italy. He died in 1962.
John Dillinger
Ruthless Dillinger was known as "Jackrabbit" and is a famous 1920s mobster believed to be responsible for raids on 24 banks and four police stations. He was lauded by the media as a Robin Hood type figure during his time on the run and he escaped prison twice. His luck ran out when he was killed in 1934 in a shootout with police after attempting to flee arrest.
George 'Machine Gun' Kelly
Kelly was a prohibition-era gangster who operated out of Tennessee and gained his nickname from his weapon of choice. He and his gang were most famous for the kidnap of oil tycoon and businessman Charles Urschel in July 1933 for which he, and his gang, collected a $200,000 ransom.
Meyer Cohen
Cohen - known to all as "Micky" - was the boss of the Los Angeles-based Cohen crime family which ruled the city with a rod of iron in the 1930s and 1940s. The Ukrainian immigrant was known to have close ties to the Italian American crime families in the Mafia. The former boxer made his money operating illegal gambling dens.
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky was a highly influential figure in the Jewish American and Italian American crime communities. He was affectionately known as the 'Mob's Accountant' but never served time for his activities. He died aged 80 in 1983. The character Hyman Roth in The Godfather movies was based on Lansky.
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Dutch Schultz
Schultz was a prolific figure in the bootlegging industry in the 1920s and 1930s. He was targeted relentlessly by prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who he sought permission from the mob bosses to have killed. They refused but he made an attempt on Dewew regardless, which failed. As a result of his disregard of the rules passed down by the bosses Schultz was "taken out" in 1935.
Joe Gallo
Burly Gallo known as "Crazy Joe" and "Joe the Blond" was a New York-based gangster in the highly-feared Profaci crime family who started the Columbo wars, one of the bloodiest conflicts in organised crime history. Joe was killed himself as a result of the "war". He ran high-stakes card games and extortion rackets.
Gerald Chapman
The so-called "Gentleman Bandit" led an early prohibition-era gang from 1919 to his death in 1926, when he was hanged for his crimes. Chapman was the first criminal to be widely labelled "Public Enemy Number One" by the press. He proclaimed his innocence to the end, asking in his final appeal for "justice, not mercy".
Johnny Torrio
Gentle-looking Torrio - also known as "Papa Johnny", "The Fox" and "The Immune" - was one of the founders of the Chicago crime empire during the prohibition era. He was succeeded by his protege Al Capone in the 1930s. The Italian-born hoodlum was called the "biggest gangster in America" by leading US treasury officials.
Anthony Cornero Stralla
Known as Tony the Hat, Stralla was a successful bootlegger and gambling entrepreneur operating out of the California area. He also ran and operated several Las Vegas casinos when the city began to emerge.He died mysteriously while playing craps. Many say he poisoned by one of enemies.
Frank Costello
Costello was nicknamed "The Prime Minister of the Underworld" and was without doubt one of the most influential crime bosses in America during the 1930s. He was named boss of the Lucciano crime family after Lucky was imprisoned in 1937. He was jailed for contempt of a grand jury. Released from prison in 1961, he served as a Mafia elder statesman until his death in 1973.
Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel
Siegel was one of the driving forces behind the development of Las Vegas after the Second World War. Highly influential in both Italian American and Jewish American organised crime, he was shot dead at his home by an unknown assailant in 1947. Siegel was known as one of the most "infamous and feared gangsters of his day"
Don Vito Cascioferro
Cascioferro or "Don Vito" was a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia in the early 1900s, and operated in America for several years. He is often depicted as the "boss of bosses" although such a position does not actually exist in the loose structure of Cosa Nostra in Sicily. He is thought to have been responsible for the 1909 murder of Joseph Petrosino, head of the NYPD's Italian Squad.
Joe Profaci
Profaci, who founded the New York-based Profaci family, now known as the Colombo crime family. This was the last of the so-called 'five families' of New York to be founded. He remained boss of the family for three decades before dying of liver cancer in 1961. He was known as a flamboyant man who smoked big cigars and drove big black Cadillacs.