User:Alexbonaro/Timeline of Detroit mob murders
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A little while back someone posted this great list about Detroit mob murders from the 1940s to now, and maybe mcscott or anyone else can give some feedback on it. Here it is:
I've spent the last few years researching the Detroit mob very closely with a particular emphasis on probable and possible mob murders. Below is a list of mob murders, deaths, accidents, and suicides post 1940 connected to Detroit. The ones with asterisks are ones I'm not particularly confident in, but the others I stand by. I wondered if anyone who pays attention to Detroit disagreed with me on any, or wanted to comment on, or if anyone had any that they'd like to add to my list. I've periodically posted my list before on the previous forum and I'm always looking for good discussion. So here's my list with some very brief descriptions:
1944: Eddie Sarkesian. Hoodlum who had been robbing mob bookies.
1945: Lydia Thompson. Found with note she had written that if anything ever happened to her the police should question Santo Perrone.
1946: Sam Ricca. Flint area man and possible racketeer.
1947: Fred Baraky. Detroit bookie.
1947: Gust Andromolous. Detroit numbers operator.
1948: Sam Scroy and Pete Lucido. Bookies who disappeared.
1949: Eddie Martino. Detroit bookie.
1950: Jack George. Hoodlum and robber.
1955: A. C. Jones. Numbers operator and safe cracker.**
1956: Salvatore Vitale. Narcotics trafficker who disappeared.
1957: Joseph Cicalo. Flint area racketeer.
1957: Leo Difatta. Mob muscleman who was robbing numbers operators.
1957: Gilde Caprio. Gary IN mobster found strangled in Michigan.**
1957: Earl Atwood. Gambler found executed.**
1958: Antonio Dipaquali. Italian immigrant killed by professional car bomb.**
1959: Robert Foster. Detroit hoodlum stabbed to death.**
1959: Joseph C. Moceri. Detroit area mobster.
1959: Christ Scroy. Brother of Sam Scroy. Disappeared and later found mutilated.
1960: Thomas Karamanos. Greektown gambler and informant.
1962: Roy Calabresse. Gambler and possible informant.
1962: Karl Weiner. Gambler. Possible suicide.**
1963: Chafic Sabino. Mob associate who introduced undercover police operator to gambling individuals which led to breakup of a gambling operation. Died in a car crash a few weeks later.**
1963: Sol Brodsky. Con man.
1964: Harry Ellis. Detroit numbers operator.
1965: Onofrio Minaudo. Deported Detroit gangster killed in Sicily.**
1965: Pete Lombardo. Detroit mobster and Perrone associate.
1968: Sam Dimaggio. Loan shark victim.
1968: Caesar Adler. Giacalone gambling operator.
1968: Robert Dunaway. Giacalone enforcer.
1968: Judith Ruggirello. Wife of Antonino Ruggirello who disappeared.
1968: Hubert Voshen** Died in suspiscious car accident. Possibly owed a large amount of money by the Giacalone brothers.
1968: Joseph Moceri. Prohibition era gangster who died after being beaten by robber. The assailant later confessed but there were inconsistancies.**
1968: The entire Robinson family was murdered in northern Michigan. A Detroit mobster in prison claimed that Mr. Robinson owed the Detroit mob money and that they were responsible for the murder of the entire family.**
1970: Nick Arvan. Lawyer and mob associate.
1970: Joseph Calabro. Connected to Arvan murder.
1970-71: George Wahl. Somehow connected to Arvan and Calabro murders.
1971: Pete Klavinger. Heroin dealer and in debt to loan sharks.**
1971: Joe Bozied. Truck dealer killed by car bomb on same day as Sol Shindel.
1971: Sol Shindel. Detroit mob gambling specialist.
1972: Agnes Brush. Bookkeeper for company that made secret loan to a developing firm with mob ties. She had been making complaints about the loan and was found stabbed to death.
1972: Pete Vasallo. Enforcer for Giacalones.
1972: John Palmer. Enforcer for Giacalones. He disappeared from prison. I have no record of him ever being found but its possible he was apprehended later without me knowing about it. When he disappeared most law enforcement officials believed he would never be found.
1972: George Milkovich. Numbers operator and connected to Nick Arvan, Joseph Calabro, and George Wahl.
1972: Gregory "Pete" Katranis. Mob enforcer.
1974: Gerald Franklin. Lawyer for Pete Lazaros
1974: Harvey Leach. Furniture company owner killed after heading to meeting with a Giacalone associate. His company taken over shortly after by a different Giacalone associate.
1974: Ronnie Cohen. Probable suicide but scheduled to testify in grand jury investigation of Harvey Leach case.**
1974: David DeLarosa. Killed by Giacalone associate.
1975: Jimmy Hoffa.
1976: Tommy Labarrie. Money collector for Giacalones.
1976: Nick Ditta, Frank Randazzo, Joe Siragusa. Mob members killed by Ernest Kanakis in hit gone terribly wrong.
1977: Otto Wendel. Teamster treasurer.
1980: John Coclu. Old associate of Maxie Stern. Found beheaded.
1980: Anthony Starr**
1981: Carlo Licata.**
1983: E. David Auer. Detroit area businessman.**
1984: Ralph Proctor. Former Teamster killed after heading to meeting with Anthony Lapiana.
1985: Eugene Mancen, Frederick Sanderson, Laverio Termine. Triple murder allegedly ordered by a Giacalone associate.
1985: Colleen Smith. Bernard Marchesani wanted for questioning in the murder.
1985: Harry Maciarz. Numbers operator and associate of Corrado family.
1985: Pete Cavataio. Identified mob member.
1985: James Stabile, Camille Stabile, I.T. Hill. Triple murder that may have been spur of the moment by man who felt he was owed money by Stabile. The man was later convicted, but Stabile was an associate of Pete Cavataio.**
1989: Frank Stramaglia. Four Bears executive.
1989: Mark Giancotti. Four Bears executive.
1998: Peter McNeil. Informer and witness against Giacalone backed cocaine operation in England that was taken down in the 1980s. Killed in Great Britain.**
2001: John Jarjosa Jr. Son of recently imprisoned man who was an associate of Detroit mob.
2002: Vincent F. Meli. Found in Pacific ocean. Probably an accident.**
Then there are nameless possible murders. The ten unknown possible victims of Central Sanitation. Vito Giacalone told someone that they had bumped off a couple of loan sharks who hadn't listened in the 1960s. In Last Mafioso Fratianno relates a story of Frank Bompensiero killing an unnamed man for Detroit mobsters probably in the 1960s. The way its described it sounds like the Salvatore Vitale murder, but the timeframe doesn't seem to fit. Anthony Giacalone was recorded talking about a murder he participated in in the 1940s that involved transporting a strangled body to Wyandotte, but we don't know who he was talking about. In 1974 top numbers operator and good friend of the Giacalones Louis "Rip" Koury was kidnapped by some black numbers operators. Koury was released, and the Detroit Free Press reported that several of the kidnappers wound up murdered, but I haven't found any information other than that one reference. According to FBI documents a California man was called to Detroit for a meeting in 1962 with Black Bill Tocco and the FBI was unable to locate him afterward. There are a few others that are even more questionable than the ones I've marked as the ones I'm not sure of. But I'll hold off on those. Anyway, I'd like to get some people's opinions. Thanks!
