Webmae died at 89 in 1986. Not long before her death, she put a match to her diaries and the love letters capone sent her from prison. She was, bair says, “protective. Webw hen notorious gangster al capone died 70 years ago—on jan. 25, 1947—it was quietly, like little else in his life. As time’s report on capone ‘s death.

Websome historians have speculated that capone ordered the 1939 murder of edward j. O'hare a week before his release, for helping federal prosecutors convict capone of tax.