This is the story of Joseph Faberini, a Mob hitman who lived in the
Apache Junction area many years ago. Joey "The Trigger" Faber, as
he was known to the locals, was a heartless killer who didn't show
any mercy. He had killed men, women, children and animals without a
second thought.
The story goes that one night he was ordered to shoot up the
house of another Mobster, but he got the wrong address and ended up
slaughtering an innocent family, cutting them to ribbons with a
storm of bullets.
The citizens of Apache Junction had finally reached their limit.
They formed a vigilante group and dragged Faber from his house in
the middle of the night, beating him so violently that he wasn't
recognizable. They wrapped him tightly in razor-sharp barbed wire
and drove him out to this spot, where they laid him across the
front seat of his car and doused him with gasoline. They threw a
lighted match into the car and then pushed it over the edge.
Witnesses said that as Faber went down in a fiery Hell, he
laughed at them and swore he would come back to get his
revenge.
Standing at the cache here, you can see some additional wrecked
cars that are also at the site. Somewhere underneath the tangled
mess lies the remains of Fabers burnt car. Local law enforcement
never did conduct a formal investigation into the actions of the
vigilante group, but the next morning a few deputies went down to
inspect the scene.
Joey Fabers body was never found.