ransom demand, Daniel Walsh was never returned. He will always be remembered for providing the funding that put the Kennedys in Congress and later into the presidency. A federal inquiry was held shortly after his disappearance and, although Walsh was named as a member of the "Big Seven" by testimony from a former associate, the investigation failed to solve his disappearance. Numerous rumors circulated about his disappearance, including his body being stuffed into a barrel filled with cement and dumped into the sea by a rum runner off Block Island, as well as unidentified witnesses who reported seeing several men using lime to fill a shallow grave; however, neither of these leads were investigated. Over the next several years, police would often investigate unidentified murder victims in the hopes of finding Walsh. However, as it was reported by the press “any time a suspicious corpse was found – in the Massachusetts or Rhode Island woods – or a skull turned up in a fishing net off Block Island, police checked it against Danny Walsh’s dental records.” Despite efforts by law enforcement, Walsh's body was never recovered. On December 10, 2016, State Police in Rhode Island began excavating Walsh's former property in Charlestown, Rhode Island. The property was given to the St. James Church next door but was sold to a developer in Aug. 2016. In Dec. 2016, the developer broke ground on the property and human remains were discovered. Archeologists have since largely dismissed the remains as belonging to Danny Walsh or one of his victims, and the remains have instead been attributed to a 19th-century burial plot. See also List of kidnappings List of people who disappeared List of unsolved deaths References English, T.J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. External links All about the Providence Mob by Allen May In the Roaring Twenties the question here was: What Prohibition ? References 1890s births 1930s missing person cases 1933 deaths American gangsters Murdered American gangsters of Irish descent Missing gangsters Missing person cases in Rhode Island Kidnapped people People from Cumberland, Rhode Island People murdered in Rhode Island Prohibition-era gangsters