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Silas Jayne

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The Resume

    (July 3, 1907-July 13, 1987)
    Born in Chicago, Illinois
    Known as 'Chicago's Suburban Gangster'
    Linked to some of the Windy City's most notorious murders and missing persons cases
    Died of leukemia at 80

Why he might be annoying:

    At 17, he did a year bid in jail for rape.
    In 1955, he burned down his barn, collecting insurance money to cover up that his employee Kenneth Hansen molested and murdered a trio of pubescent boys in the stables.
    Three women, who allegedly witnessed a bomb being alligator-clipped to the ignition of half-brother George's car, with the explosion killing his assistant, vanished in 1966.
    A cop investigating the horse racket was shot to death through a kitchen window (1968).
    Two years later, while playing cards in the basement with his wife, George was shot through the heart.
    Socialite Helen Brach, destined to tell authorities she'd been scammed by her lover/Jayne associate Richard Bailey, went missing and was presumably burned up in a blast furnace (1977).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was known as charming.
    He rocked a 16-karat diamond pinky ring.
    He was an excellent horseman.
    Many of his harrowing deeds finally came to light in the 1990s through a re-opened investigation of Helen Brach's disappearance.
    A number of people, including Kenneth Hansen and Richard Bailey, as well as the hitmen who murdered George, were eventually convicted.

Credit: Black Chic


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 87.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 23 Votes: 39.13% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 23 Votes: 60.87% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 115 Votes: 81.74% Annoying