On this day, March 24, in 1982, the grandson of a St. Louis crime boss and a former Missouri police chief were both charged in a series of underworld car bombings.
James A. Michaels III, whose grandfather died in a 1980 car bombing that ignited a mob war in St. Louis, was charged with setting a bomb that maimed rival Paul J. Leisure. Milton Schepp, the former police chief in St. George, Mo., who built the bombs with Michaels, went on the run for a year.
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