By Michael J. Cain
The Tangled Web tells the dramatic tale of detective Richard Cain's legal profession as published through his half-brother, Michael. Cain led a double-life—one as a widely known cop who led raids that landed at the entrance pages, and the opposite as a "made guy" in a single of Chicago's such a lot infamous mob households. ultimately finished by way of shotgun, Dick Cain lived and died in an international of bloodshed and violence, forsaking a narrative so outlandish that he has even been suspected of being curious about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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So he had money when others were struggling, and that was likely part of what drew Lydia to him. That, and his devil-may-care attitude about life in general. But she had a mean streak that dug into him like a hot poker. One story he told me was about a radio he’d saved for and bought. He’d paid a hundred dollars for it, no small purchase in those days. He loved listening to the radio, and in the days before television it was great entertainment. One day, Lydia decided he was listening to the radio when he should have been listening to her and she threw it out the window of their second-story apartment.
As we called him) dealt with difficult issues. When we had a discussion about almost any sensitive topic, he shut down, clammed up. His lips got thin, his jaw set; that was the signal. In other words, you deal with it by not dealing with it at all. I was furious; how could he not have told me? But fury wasn’t an emotion the children of John Cain were allowed. He’d only really seen me angry with him once, and that was the day I moved out of his house. Anger, rage, and fury; that was his turf, not ours.
The following week, the Chicago Tribune declared that thieves had killed Dick. Their story was that he had been involved with a burglary ring and that something had gone terribly wrong amongst the burglars, resulting in Dick’s murder. I was determined to understand who killed him and why, but then and there was neither the time nor the place for me to press it. As it turned out, the time and place wouldn’t present themselves for several more years, after I’d moved to the Bay Area of Northern California.
