William Action Jackson Autopsy Report ((exclusive)) Info

: Jackson was hung by his rectum on a steel meat hook, suspended roughly a foot in the air. The sheer weight of his 300-pound frame reportedly caused the hook to bend.

: His knees were smashed with a hammer or bat. william action jackson autopsy report

His body was covered in cuts, rope marks on his wrists and feet, and he had a hole through his right ear from a sharp object. Motive for the Slaying : Jackson was hung by his rectum on

The fluorescent lights of the basement archive hummed with a sound that grated on Elias’s teeth. He had been down here for three hours, digging through the "Cold Storage" boxes—cases that the Bureau had quietly shelved over the decades. His body was covered in cuts, rope marks

Jackson’s body finally gave out on August 11, 1961. His captors loaded his remains into his Cadillac trunk, leaving it in the subterranean streets of downtown Chicago to be found by the authorities the following day. Key Findings of the Autopsy Report