// ]]> Just a few months earlier, he had testified in front of Congress in support of a bill to outlaw fortune telling in Washington, D.C. Could Houdinis meddling have gotten him killed? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. According to the investigator's report, obtained by Daily Mail, Levin had been reported missing after making contact with a friend saying he was lost close to Cave Junction, Oregon. So maybe it comes as a surprise that Henry Hill, the gangster who inspired the book Wiseguy and Ray Liotta's performance in Goodfellas (again, Scorsese, not to mention a segment of Animaniacs) didn't die of lead poisoning, so to speak. officers who die in the line of duty are entitled to continue receiving 100 percent of their salary and a lump-sum payment of $50,000, as opposed to 33 percent of their salary. Against doctors orders, Houdini continued his tour and traveled to Montreal, where he gave a lecture at McGill University. His problem was that he wasn't 100% Italian his father was Irish, his mother Sicilian but that didn't stop him from giving it the good ol' college try. $( ".header-top-line" ).prepend('Bloomfield (860) 769-6841'); He won 196 consecutive fieldarchery tournaments, including seven straight national titles, and then dropped out of tournaments because other archers were reluctant to compete with him. The death certificate also listed anemia, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, depression, hypertension and pneumonia. Master escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween of 1926 from a ruptured appendix, but many of the circumstances surrounding his demise remain mysterious to this day. Howard Hill Genealogy - Death Records | Ancestry Howard Hill Birthday and Date of Death Howard Hill was born on November 13, 1899 and died on February 4, 1975. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. It's not the only way to go after getting out of Alcatraz, Capone himself perished as a result of a stroke and heart attack in Florida, but that was after a long slide into mental incapacity from untreated syphilis.