Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder

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In the fall of 1996, a few days after my wedding, an article about my father appeared in the Arizona Republic, an updating of the old, unhappy story:

The men from Chicago were efficient.

In the shadowy stairwell of the parking garage on North Central Avenue, they placed four.22-caliber shots into the chest of accountant Ed Lazar and one into the back of his head.

They then partially unscrewed a light bulb near the door and disabled a fluorescent fixture, throwing the area into total darkness.

It was hours before police found the body Feb. 19, 1975. It was two decades before they found out who killed Lazar and why.

On Tuesday, they revealed the truth, along with information about a string of murders in Phoenix that they know or suspect was carried out by Chicago mob killers.

That information, among other things, throws new light on the murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles in 1976.

Phoenix police said that Ned Warren, Sr., then the king of Arizona land fraud, ordered the hit on Lazar, his bookkeeper and business partner.

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