[1] Adam Richetti was born in Strawn, Texas, on August 5, 1909, and moved with his family to Lehigh, Oklahoma three years later.

[3] Richetti, although he began drinking heavily at 14, was apparently uninvolved in criminal activity until his arrest for robbery in Crown Point, Indiana on August 7, 1928, two days after his 19th birthday.

His partners in the heist were Edgar Dunbar and Aussie Elliott with whom he hid at his brother's home in Bolivar, Missouri.

Unknown to either Richetti or Floyd, while they were driving across Missouri, bank robber Frank Nash was being transported by train from Arkansas to Kansas City where his partners attempted to free him from custody.

A month later, they rented an apartment in Buffalo, New York and moved in with their gun molls, sisters Rose Ash and Beulah Bird, on September 21.

Richetti is believed by most modern crime historians to have had no active role in the Kansas City Massacre, the most popular story being sleeping off an all-night drinking binge at the time the shooting began.

[3][4] Floyd managed to escape but was cornered by federal agents under Melvin Purvis near East Liverpool and gunned down two days later.

Chestosky doubted Richetti's role in the Kansas City Massacre based on his belief that the suspect had no involvement in the death of the officers.

[3][4] Three days later, Richetti was found guilty of the murder of police officer Frank Hermanson and sentenced to death.