The following gangsterologists poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Who were the five St. Valentine’s Day Massacre gunmen? (Vote...
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Mar 1, 2006 11:11 am
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Interesting poll! I recently joined, so I missed voting, but I do have a bit of family trivia for this one! My grandfather was the foreman for the man who...
TODAY IN GANGSTER HISTORY On March 3, 1934, John Dillinger escaped from the Lake County Jail at Crown Point, Indiana. The escape was allegedly made with a...
Alcatraz' famous alumni Were Al Capone and the Birdman, Robert Stroud basically unappreciated compassionate conservatives? By AL ZAGOFSKY, Times News- Mar 04...
TODAY IN GANGSTER HISTORY On March 4, 1944, Louis (Lepke) Buchalter was executed in Sing Sing's electric chair. He is the only major mob boss to ever have been...
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Mar 4, 2006 11:28 pm
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Hi Bob & Gang, This is a new biography out on Lepke. THE LIFE & TIMES OF LEPKE BUCHALTER: AMERICA'S MOST RUTHLESS LABOR RACKETEER by Paul Kavieff. Haven't seen...
I have all three books by Paul Kavieff. They are good reads. I had the opportunity to meet him briefly at a book fair in Ann Arbor. Fred ... From: Rick Mattix...
Thanks for the tip on the new Lepke book. I very much enjoyed Paul Kavieff's book on the Purple gang. To my knowledge, it was the first book to focus on the...
Just the other day I got Mars Eghigian's new biography of Frank Nitti, entitled AFTER CAPONE. It is also an excellent read. Allan May is currently working on a...
For those interested in contemporary organized crime Howie Carr's book, The Brothers Bulger, looks interesting. Carr has a promotional site for the book at...
I was wondering if anyone has heard anymore on the subject of the up and coming "Cleveland , Ohio,- Gangster's Holiday." I need to put in for when I want to...
TODAY IN GANGSTER HISTORY On March 6, 1934, the Dillinger gang robbed the Security National Bank and Trust Company at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, stealing...
Hello, I'm new to the list, so bear with me if I ask questions that have already been answered. What would you consider the best book on Alcatraz history? The...
Hi Kate: Welcome to GANGSTEROLOGISTS! Alcatraz was used as a U.S. Army Disciplinary Barracks until 1934 when it was taken over by the Federal Bureau of...
I'm fairly new here, too. My husband and I took the tour of Alcatraz last summer and we found it fascinating. It is really a creepy place, though. Do you know...
Welcome to GANGSTEROLOGISTS to you, too! There have been a ton of books written by former Alcatraz convicts. As one would expect, some are more truthful than...
Thanks so much for all the information. I am especially interested in anything on the Touhy gang as I have been researching Isaac Costner who has been...
Chicago Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak, was assasinationed on this date as he was riding in a parade with the then President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt , by...
Hello Kate, I have been on the Alcatraz tour twice and really enjoyed the history there. Lots of famous criminals served there. One of these that I find most...
Alvin Karpis's book, On the Rock, is one of my favorites, too. As with all autobiographies, however, Karpis's books contain his opinions and omissions. In...
{laugh} "...these guys did not become famous because of their honesty." So true, so true. To hear them tell it, they were all civic minded businessmen who were...
Hello Kate, It is funny...but what is even more hilarious is many police official's wrote reports that were incorrect, falsifying the facts in the 1920s and...
Oh yeah, I'm very familiar with corrupt law enforcement officials. They just cleared out a bunch of them in Cocke County here in East Tennessee. I've also run...
In researching Chicago crime, has anyone ever run across the name Rocco Belcastro? This man was born in 1906 and was convicted in U.S. District Court at ...
TODAY IN GANGSTER HISTORY On March 9, 1950, three armed bandits held up the offices of the Manufacturer's Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens, escaping with ...
Hello Bob, Yes, very confusing as there were a couple of Rocco Belcastros at the time.One was a westside hoodlum who was murdered in a saloon May 1933. The...
Hello Mario, So which of the two Roccos was arrested in the Massacre investigation? Also, I've got the one murdered in 1933 down as a guy called "The Crazy...
Thanks for the information, Mario and Rick. A Chicago Tribune story dated February 24, 1929, indicates that the Rocco Belcastro arrested in the St. Valentine's...
Hello Rick, From the stuff I have here The Rocco killed in 1933 was the same picked up in the Loyal Tacker /Massacre affair.Missing little finger on the...
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