Adam C. Richetti
Charged with Floyd and Miller in a federal conspiracy indictment concerning Frank Nash's custody; the FBI says he was convicted in Jackson County of the murder of an officer at Union Station, sentenced to be hanged, and executed on 7 October 1938.
- Died
- 1938-10-07
- Aliases
- Adam Richetti
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 1934 — A W.D. Mo. federal indictment (No. 12777) charged Richetti with conspiracy concerning Frank Nash, with Charles Arthur Floyd and Vernon C. Miller (National Archives item 24734664; scan read).
- 1 December 1934 — A praecipe for alias capias in the Western District of Missouri names him in No. 12697, reciting an indictment filed on 22 October 1934 (National Archives item 24734052).
- 1935 — The FBI says latent fingerprints on beer bottles in Miller's Kansas City home were identified as Richetti's, that he was indicted by the Jackson County grand jury on 1 March 1935 on four counts of murder, tried from 10 June 1935, found guilty on 17 June 1935 and sentenced to be hanged, and that the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed on 3 May 1938 (FBI History essay).
- 7 October 1938 — The FBI says "He was executed on October 7, 1938."
The Missouri trial record and the Missouri Supreme Court decision were not located, so the state conviction rests on the FBI essay’s account, which is stated as the FBI’s. The federal indictment is a charge. No role is entered.
Records
itemKansas City Massacre and "Pretty Boy" Floyd (FBI history page)The FBI's history essay on the June 17, 1933 shooting in front of Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri, in which four officers and their prisoner Frank Nash were killed. It places the car directly in front of the station's east entrance.
itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS101: indictment No. 12777The first page of the 29-page W.D. Mo. case file is an indictment charging Adam Richetti, Charles Arthur Floyd alias 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, and Vernon C. Miller alias Verne Mason alias Verne Moore with conspiring to violate federal law concerning the custody of Frank Nash, an escaped Leavenworth prisoner.
itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti and Charles Floyd (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS99: praecipe for alias capias, No. 12697A 16-page National Archives case file whose first page is a praecipe for alias capias in 'The United States vs. Adam Richetti,' number 12697, reciting an indictment exhibited and filed on 22 October 1934, dated 1 December 1934 and signed by U.S. Attorney Maurice M. Milligan.
itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS101: indictment No. 12777The first page of the 29-page W.D. Mo. case file is an indictment charging Adam Richetti, Charles Arthur Floyd alias 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, and Vernon C. Miller alias Verne Mason alias Verne Moore with conspiring to violate federal law concerning the custody of Frank Nash, an escaped Leavenworth prisoner.itemUnited States v. Adam Richetti and Charles Floyd (W.D. Mo.), criminal case file SS99: praecipe for alias capias, No. 12697A 16-page National Archives case file whose first page is a praecipe for alias capias in 'The United States vs. Adam Richetti,' number 12697, reciting an indictment exhibited and filed on 22 October 1934, dated 1 December 1934 and signed by U.S. Attorney Maurice M. Milligan.