the gory scene: "Boy, this is a heartless guy. He was eating pasta when Billy's eye popped out". In the 1960s, Nicoletti was questioned by two FBI agents, including Agent William F. Roemer Jr., to see whether they could develop Nicoletti as an informant against the Outfit. According to Roemer, Nicoletti gave him the names of several car dealerships he worked at and was very cordial; apparently, all the employment leads checked out. But Nicoletti never flipped and never talked to the FBI again, though there was eventually talk in Chicago that Nicoletti had flipped. It has been alleged that Nicoletti was involved in as many as 20 mob hits during his career as a hitman. In 2010, Playboy magazine published an article by Hillel Levin in which Nicoletti was implicated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by James Files, an inmate within the Illinois Department of Corrections, and Chauncey Marvin Holt. Death On March 29, 1977, Nicoletti was shot three times in the back of his head while waiting in his Oldsmobile in the parking lot of the Golden Horns Restaurant in suburban Northlake, Illinois. He was brought to the Northlake Community Hospital where he died six to seven hours later. Nicoletti's car was never turned off and consequently overheated and caught on fire, causing initial incorrect press reports that his car was firebombed. Nicoletti was due to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations at the time of his death. The same applies to George de Mohrenschildt who died on the exact same day. According to Roemer, Chicago mob assassin Harry Aleman is the suspected hitman. Nicoletti is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. See also List of unsolved murders Notes Further reading 1916 births 1977 deaths 1977 murders in the United States Burials at the Bishop's Mausoleum, Mount Carmel Cemetery (Hillside) Chicago Outfit mobsters Criminals from Chicago Deaths by firearm in Illinois Male murder victims Mafia hitmen Gangsters from Chicago Murdered American gangsters of Italian descent Murdered American gangsters of Sicilian descent Patricides People associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy People murdered in Illinois Torture in the United States Unsolved murders in the United States