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Angelo Caruso was a criminal who was involved with numerous rackets such as prostitution, kidnapping and shaking down and coercion of merchants. Caruso was handpicked as underboss by Salvatore Maranzano who succeeded Giuseppe Masseria in 1931 as Mafia boss of bosses. Caruso lived in Manhattan, the...

Kid Gavilan was a fixture in the boxing world of the early 1950s. He fought on television more than thirty times, in bouts for championships and non-title fights. From Camaguey, Cuba, the Kid was named by his first manager, who had a restaurant called El Gavilan or The Little Hawk. Kid Gavilan fought...

Jacob "Jack" Drucker was the finger man for Murder, Inc. in Sullivan County, New York. Numerous murder victims turned up on land near Loch Sheldrake, Monticello, Liberty and other towns in Sullivan. Drucker was arrested in Wilmington, Delaware in 1943 after being pursued by Federal Agents. He was...

My e-book considers possible connections between the murder of gambler Arnold Rothstein, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago of 1929, and other gangland slayings. Rothstein's was killed in November 1928. A succession of murders followed including the Coral Gables, Florida murder...

Joi Lansing was a contemporary of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. She has been called "the Marilyn Monroe of television." Lansing got her first break when she was spotted by a talent agent who worked with Bob Cummings on the "Love That Bob" TV show. Her recurring role in this...

The mod British fashion model arrived in the United States on March 20, 1967. Weighing just 92 pounds her slight figure reminded observers of a young boy. When a retinue of photographers surrounded the unique 17-year-old she was soon surrounded by a throng of teenage girl admirers. Twiggy came to...

Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino was a Mafioso closely associated with Pittsburgh mobster John La Rocca and Florida crime boss Santos Trafficante Jr. Mannarino was part owner of Havana's Sans Souci nightclub in the pre-Fidel Castro era. Based in southwestern Pennsylvania Gabriel was also involved...

The Giacalone brothers are closely associated with the July 30, 1975 disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa, the President of the Teamsters Union. Hoffa was scheduled to meet the brothers along with Genovese family capo Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano. The latter had flown in from his home in...

Gaspare Magaddino was a Bonanno gunman who was wanted for multiple crimes by the time of his death. The FBI and the International Police (Interpol) were among the authorities pursuing him then. The New York Police Department and Long Island Police also followed him, particularly after a triple murder...

Rosario Mancsuso was a notorious figure in the annals of Utica/Oneida County, New York crime. A concrete manufacturer he was closely associated with the Falcone brothers, bootleggers Joseph and Salvatore. Mancuso was a former president of the Hod Carriers Association, Local 186. Rosario's name was...

Angelo Palmeri and Joseph DiCarlo were prominent figures in the early Mafia days of Buffalo, New York. Palmeri was also affiliated with Anthony "Baby Face" Palmisano and many other contemporary gangsters. Palmeri came to the United States from Castellammare, Italy in 1906. By 1912 he had settled in...

Frank Valenti was a Mafia figure who controlled Rochester, New York underworld activities from 1964-1972. He was an integral part of the Stefano Magaddino criminal syndicate, based in Buffalo. Costenze "Stanley" Valenti, Frank's brother, was his partner in crime. Costenze was sentenced to prison...

Anthony Salvatore "Gaspipe" Casso was a significant caporegime and underboss in the Lucchese family organization. My e-book looks at his criminal career from a parole bribery scheme that was penetrated in 1974. The ruse was operative at Rikers Island prison in Yorktown, New York. Casso later...

In 1972 the Gambino and Colombo crime families were involved in a spree of gangland killings throughout the New York City metropolitan area. Murdered mobsters were found throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan. The internecine war quickly followed the April 7th murder of Mafia boss Albert Gallo....