“Detectives believe those who sought to ‘get’ Talamo ‘took him for a ride,’’’ the Pittsburgh Press reported Sept. 30, 1927. “It lay beside the road in a lonely spot beyond the courthouse,” according to the Pittsburgh Press report. Two months after the Richmond robbery, Pittsburgh newspapers reported that Kauffman’s body had been found behind the Wendover Apartments in Squirrel Hill. “Apparently the victim of an underworld ‘ride,’ he had been shot twice through the head,” The Pittsburgh Press reported. “Mountain vengeance or the double-cross blamed in slaying,” read the Pittsburgh Press headline Feb. 26, 1946.