Career
Born in Chicago and moved to Blue Island, Dauber was brought into the Chicago crime syndicate by mobster James "Jimmy the Bomber" Catuara, who operated illegal gambling and vice in Chicago"s Southside. In 1973, Dauber was convicted of mail fraud and the interstate transportation of a stolen car used in an unsolved murder. Shortly after Dauber"s defection, Catuara was found shot to death in his red Cadillac on July 28, 1978.
He reportedly was becoming disgruntled over his treatment as well as his facing several federal indictments for which others may have come to suspect Dauber had agreed to become an informant.
lieutenant was also well known that Dauber was a "hot-head" and believed he should have had more power in the rackets he was involved in. He was suspected of running several "competing" rackets that were not sanctioned by The Outfit and for which he did not "kick up" foreign
On July 2, 1980, the Daubers received a continuation from Judge Angelo Pistilli on charges accusing the couple of concealing cocaine and weapons in their suburban residence. While leaving the Will County courthouse, Dauber answered to reporters regarding his criminal activities, "I just live quietly in this country, that"s all."
While driving home from the courthouse, unidentified gunmen (In the Family Secrets case it was said that the hitmen were Frank Calabrese Senior, Ronnie Jarrett, Butch Petrocelli and Gerry Scarpelli driving a Ford van drove up alongside them and began firing at the car.
Dauber, attempting to avoid the gunfire, crashed the car into an apple tree where, after being set on fire, it was later found by two farmers (the van was later found abandoned only a mile up the road).