What Happened To Al Capone's Money After He Died?

Although Eliot Ness of The Untouchables fame put a significant dent in Capone's bootlegging business, it was actually accountants who brought down Scarface (a nickname Capone hated) and sent him to prison in 1932. He ended up serving time in Alcatraz, but was released early for — wait for it — good behavior. There must have been a bunch of money waiting for him when he got out, right? Not so much. One of Capone's tactics was to deal in untraceable cash, but buying an estate near Miami, Florida, in 1928 helped prove a significant source of income. He still owned the place when he got out, but he was also suffering from tertiary syphilis. The long-time condition — his son was born with it — had been treated while he was in prison, including the use of mercury. It didn't work. He returned to Florida to live out his last days, with significant cognitive impairment. Not penniless, but when he finally died of complications from a stroke and a heart attack in 1947 people naturally asked, "Where's the money?" And nobody knows.

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