Al Capone returned to Chicago in 1930, not knowing that the next year was going to be a series of one unfortunate event after another. He had no way of knowing that one of the first pieces of bad news that he received was an omen of things to come – that his brother Ralph -- who had been in charge of operations when he was at Eastern State Penitentiary – had just been indicted for income tax evasion.

As far as Capone was concerned, this was one of the stupidest things he’d ever heard. Who gets convicted of not paying taxes? Murder, racketeering, gambling, bootlegging – those were crimes for which a gangster went to prison. Nobody gets locked up for a bookkeeping error, right?

Capone had no idea at that moment that this was the beginning of the end. Death and taxes, as they say, can’t be avoided by anyone.

In August 1882, three men were found murdered on a farm near Mount Pulaski, Illinois. Charles McMahon and his two hired hands, John Carlock and Robert Matheny, had been bound, gagged, and killed. Fear spread as neighbors searched for answers.

In May of 1929, a new inmate arrived at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Eastern State was no ordinary prison – it was the oldest in America, created by the Quakers who believed that if a lawbreaker had time to contemplate his crimes, he might become penitent for his misdeeds.

And the new inmate was no ordinary prisoner. He was the most famous gangster in America. His name was Al Capone, and his arrival at Eastern State was widely reported in the press. But what wasn’t so widely reported was that he had brought someone else with him to the penitentiary.

But it was someone that no one else seemed able to see. In the darkest hours of the night, other inmates reported hearing Capone screaming in his cell, begging someone he called "Jimmy" to go away and leave him alone. No one had any idea what he was talking about.

Capone was alone in his cell. Or was he?