Prison City Murders – Case 8 Part 1 – The Union Station Massacre

Saturday Morning, June 17th, 1933. Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri. Notorious bank robber Frank Nash, on the run after escaping from Leavenworth Federal Prison, is nabbed in Hot Springs, Arkansas, by two FBI agents and the McAlester, Oklahoma, police chief. After arriving at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, the four disembark from the train to make the dangerous journey by car up to Leavenworth, Kansas. Two more FBI agents and two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers, form a phalanx around the prisoner. Armed with two shotguns and pistols, they march through the station to the parking lot. As they watchfully load up the car, two men with machine guns and shout for everyone to put their hands up. A 30-second hell breaks loose. When the gun smoke settles, 5 men are dead. Sources The main source for this episode is The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of John Edgar Hoover’s FBI, by Jeffrey Unger. This is an excellent book for those who want to know more about this case, or who just want a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Union-Station-Massacre-Original-Hoovers/dp/1933466081 https://www.kansascity.com/ https://kansascity.newsbank.com https://www.newspapers.com/ https://www.ancestry.com/ https://www.genealogybank.com/ https://www.findagrave.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ https://www.fbi.gov/ https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/verne-miller.html http://www.odmp.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_massacre https://www.stltoday.com/ https://oklahoman.com/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073225/   (The Kansas City Massacre 1975 ABC TV) I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to Prison City Murders and write a review.  Even critical feedback is appreciated. You can email me at [email protected] or comment on the cases below.