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18 May 2017
Another King falls
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Thirty-eight year old Bill Kirkillis was a former Chicago hoodlum who had moved to Massillon, Ohio, and had become known as the "Ki...
12 May 2017
Sam Hunt Loses a Friend
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Harry Hyter was a gangland sort dating back to at least the early 1920s when he was involved with a bootleg gang operating out of Gary,...
10 May 2017
There is a First Time for Everything
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A little after midnight on this date back in 1931, Luigi Piazza pulled into a gas station near Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Greensburg ...
08 May 2017
It's the Big Sleep for the Leader of the Pillow Gang
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Carmelo Fresina was a St. Louis gang leader involved in bootlegging and extortion. He was looking at some bootlegging trials and told h...
18 February 2017
Explosion in Pittsburgh produce district
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On this date in 1925: A massive explosion destroyed two buildings and severely damaged several others in the Produce District of Pittsburgh....
29 January 2017
La Smootch Mort II
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In the previous installment we were introduced to Chicago's Kiss of Death Girl-Mary Collins and John Sheehy her first paramour to bite t...
28 January 2017
La Smootch Mort
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Ah, the Prohibition Era; a time when a guy with a fast car, a dream, and a machine-gun, could make oodles of kale supplying an insatiab...
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