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July 1, 1928 – Frankie Yale was killed for the hijiack of whisky camion directed to Chicago.
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day 1929.
February 2, 1943 - Estelle Cary,the girlfriend of Outfit lieutenant Nick (Nicky Dean) Circella was set to cooperate with authorities in a federal extortion case that Circella was at the center of (the infamous Hollywood studio shakedown of the 1940s) and instead was discovered on the side of the road beaten, burned and ice-picked to death. Caifano and fellow Chicago Mafiosi Sam (Teetz) Battaglia and Lester (Killer Kane) Kruse were dubbed the top suspects in the Cary homicide. Cary was a longtime gangster moll in the area, dating back to the Al (Scarface) Capone era and had been linked romantically to several prominent Windy City wiseguys.
Frank Quattrochi (1946) – Chicago mob bookie that ran afoul with Outfit administration for skiming the till and was shot-gunned to death as he left a restaurant and walked to his car, a hat with the initials “M.C.” stitched in the bill found by police at the crime scene.
Sept. 25, 1950 - William Drury .Chicago Police Department organized crime division detective-turned-mob reporter who had testified in front of Congress about his knowledge of Outfit activities, Drury had made enemies of the powerful Fischetti brothers (Rocco and “Trigger-Happy Charlie”), cousins and confidants of Scarface Capone, and was shot-gunned to death as he was backing his car out of his garage.
Feb 6, 1952: Charles Gross Reupublican acting committee-man of the 31st ward. Gross was killed by seven shotgun blasts fired at him from an automobile
June 19,1952 – Leonard “Fat Lenny” Caifano was killed by Teddy Roe men that tried to kidnapped.
August 4, 1952 - Theodore (Tough Teddy) Roe . Southside Chicago black policy kingpin that fought fearlessly to prevent the Italian mob’s takeover of the illegal numbers lottery in the city’s African-American neighborhoods in the early 1950s, Tough Teddy killed Caifano’s brother “Fat Lenny,” the right-hand man to Midwest don Sam (Momo) Giancana, the leader of the Outfit’s takeover crusade, and was slain himself in a shot-gun drive-by which took place on Michigan Avenue. Giancana was caught on an FBI wiretap two decades later lamenting having to order Roe’s murder: “ni**er or no ni**er, that bastard went out like a man, he had enormous balls, it was a shame to have to kill him.”
Louis (Russian Louie) Strauss (1953) – The west coast-based Jewish gangster was killed in California, strangled to death for trying to shakedown Las Vegas and Texas racketeer and casino owner Benny (the Cowboy) Binion. When he flipped and turned witness for the government, L.A. wiseguy Jimmy (the Weasel) Fratianno, a transplant from the Midwest admitted to killing Strauss with Frank Bompensiero, the future capo in charge of San Francisco, along with another individual at Jasper Mantranga’s house. FBI files reveal authorities suspected that Caifano, at that point deeply embedded in the west coast gangland scene, was that other individual.
March 17, 1954: Paul Labriola and James Weinberg were found slain in a trunk of an automobile
August 19, 1954: Capone hoodlum Charles (Cherry Nose) Gioe shot to death in his car near Erie and May sts
August 21, 1954: James Morris shot to death
August 21, 1954; Michael Silvestri: taken for a 'gang ride'
August 23, 1954: Frank Maritote better known as Frank Diamond was killed in a gang ambush near his home at 4144 5th ave
November 4, 1955 - Willie Bioff – The Chicago-born Jewish mob enforcer that became a government witness in the 1940s and testified against several Windy City major mafia figures , including then-boss Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, in a 1943 trial for shaking down Hollywood movie studios, Bioff was blown up in a car bomb attached to his pickup truck on November 4, 1955, while living in Phoenix under an assumed name. Bioff’s whereabouts were divulged to those seeking revenge for his betrayal after he began working for West Coast gambling and casino czar Gus Greenbaum, the New York and Chicago mafia’s man in Las Vegas for most of the 1950s, using the alias “Willie Nelson.”
Dec 8, 1955: Alex Greenberg, brewer and hotel owner and financial adviser to the Capone gang, was shot to death by two gunmen.
March 31, 1957: Leon Marcus shot and dumped from a car in a parking lot
April 16, 1957: Salvatore Moretti, found stuffed into the trunk of an abandoned automobile
April 27, 1957: Joe Caprio beaten to death and found in the trunk of a car
May 4, 1957: Russell Mcdaniel, shot to death
June 14, 1957: Nick Paulos found dead in a trunk, his neck was broken, skull fractured and chest crushed
December 3, 1958 - Gus Greenbaum – A well-known Jewish mob associate and racketeer, Greenbaum and his wife Bess were killed inside the bedroom of their Phoenix home, their throats slashed with a butcher’s knife on December 3, 1958.
Greenbaum, a pivotal presence in the formation of the legendary Las Vegas casino skim and overseer of gangland interests in Nevada for the New York and Chicago mob families, was discovered decapitated after being caught stealing from the till to support an increasingly severe alcohol & drug problem.
Dec 18, 1958: Carmen Madia shot to death in gangland style by gunmen who ambushed him in the rear of 306 W, 24th st.
Aug 22, 1959: Frederick Evans, once the financial brains of the old Capone mob shot to death in West side parking lot by two gunmen
Nov 2, 1959: Sam Gironda shotgunned to death as he was getting out of his car
Nov 6, 1959: Joseph Bronge a beer distributor shot by two gunmen at his office
Dec 16, 1959: Roger Touhy shot to death less than a month after he had been released from a 25 year prison term
Jan 5, 1960: William (The Saint) Skally, a syndicate hoodlum, shot to death in his automobile
Jan 20, 1960: Arthur Adler, a night club owner whose body was found in a sewer on March 28
Feb 9, 1960: Herman Posner knifed to death
Oct 13, 1960: Michael Urgo, an attorney shot to death in the driveway of his home. Urgo was shot as he struggled with three gunmen attempting to kidnap his father in law, Guido DeChiaro, a crime syndicate gangster
Oct 26, 1960: Joachim (Jelly Bean Jack) Silver, a jewel thief vanishes
Nov 15, 1960: Michael DeMarte: Shot and killed near his home at 1533 congress St
Dec 6, 1960: Lester Belgrad: a suspected burglar was found in his auto, shot to death
Dec 10, 1960: Richard Fanning, a burglar, found dead in his auto in front of 3565 S. Wells St. He had been tortured to death.
Dec 12, 1960: Frank Del Guidice a small time hoodlum found shot to death in his auto
Feb 2, 1961: Theo Sampaniotis shot to death in a garage at 642 Blue Island Ave
March 31, 1961: John Powers shot to death outside his home
May 15, 1961: Edward Mcnally a hoodlum and pal of Powers. Mcnally was shot and strangled to death
June 13, 1961: L.C Smith a delivery service driver, found and shot to death in his car
June 14, 1961: Shelby Faulk, dope peddler and gambler found shot in the head & chest
June 20, 1961: Ralph Del Genio bludgeoned to death over gambling debts
July 29, 1961: Mike Joyce found shot in the head twice in his burned out automobile
Aug 1, 1961: Carl Wiltse a burglar had given information to the police was shotgunned to death. He had feared for months he would be murdered
Aug 11, 1961: William (Action) Jackson tortured to death
Oct 20, 1961: John Kilpatrick found shot to death in his car
Nov 4, 1961: Albert Brown found shot to death beside a car he had borrowed
Nov 8, 1961: Joseph Gentile shot and killed near his auto near his home
Nov 9, 1961: Albert Testa, a 3 feet 10 midget hoodlum shot in the head and dumped in an alley
Nov 14, 1961: Louis DiMeo, found beaten to death in his apartment
Nov 16, 1961: John Hennigan a gambler killed with shotgun blasts near his home
The M&M Murders – After shooting up a mob-connected bar and killing the tavern’s owners and a waitress, the wildcard Chicago underworld enforcer tandem of 24-year olds, Jimmy Miraglia and Billy McCarthy, were slain on back-to-back nights in May 1962.
Miraglia’s head was put in a vise and his eye popped out of its socket before divulging his accomplice’s name and whereabouts to an enraged Tony Spilotro and Mad Sam DeStefano and having his throat slit. McCarthy was done away with the next day by the same pair. The Miraglia hit was shown in the movie, Casino, too.
Jan 20, 1962: August (Gus) Vivirito shot 6 times
Feb 4, 1962: Henry Volanti found strangled with his hands tied behind his back in the trunk of an automobile which had been in a parking lot for two weeks
April 24, 1962: Gerald Valente, small time gambler shot & killed in front of Beas Lounge
April 26, 1962: Philip & Ronnie Scavo shot to death by Billy McCarthy & Jimmy Miraglia
May 8, 1962: Michael Ragnanese shot twice in the head
May 20, 1962: Peter Bludeau beaten & strangled to death
June 18, 1962: Herbert Kwate shot to death
June 18, 1962: Sydney Frazin a gambling collector for the syndicate was slain for double crossing the gambling overlords of the crime syndicate
Aug 24, 1962: Alex Sorrentino shot in the head & body
Jan 21, 1963: Anthony (Lover) Moschiano knifed to death
June 19, 1963: Stanley Juska shot to death
Sept 18, 1963: Richard Ilkanic shotgunned to death in front of a pizza parlor
Nov 18, 1963: Leo Foreman was found in the trunk of an automobile. He had been shot and stabbed
March 4, 1964: Albert Romano, son of Louis Romano, onetime bodyguard of Al Capone, was found shot to death in an alley behind 4137 Grenshaw st
Aug 31, 1964: Guy (Lover Boy) Mendola was slain by five shotgun blasts fired as he parked his fathers Cadillac
September 11, 1965: Manny Skar a mob gambling functionary was mysteriously shot dead in 1965 as he emerged from his car near the garage of this Lake Shore home
November 24, 1965: Angelo Boscarino, of 2201 High Ridge Avenue, Hillside, slain
March 10, 1966: Dominic Galiano slain
April 30, 1966: Leonard Centrone shot on the head, heart & groin
Aug 30, 1966: Louis (Gigi) Pratico crime syndicate soldier was beaten and shot twice in the head and dumped into a ditch near Joe Orr road.
1967 - Gerald Covelli,the “Valachi of Chicago” that flipped in 1959 was killed.
Feb 1, 1967: Charles Michelotti shot to death
Feb 22, 1967: Robert Hannah shot 8 times in the back
Feb 27, 1967: Wesley Funicella strangled to death over unpaid debts
March 7, 1967: Joseph Polito cut down by four shotgun blasts
March 17, 1967: Alan Rosenberg shot to death for swindling his boss Milwaukee Phil
Feb 22, 1969: Vito Simone Jr shot to death
Early 1970s: Bob Sprodak murdered by Frank Calabrese
Early 1970s: Anthony James Catalano (both these slayings were confirmed as Outfit hits by Frank Cullotta in his book blood
August, 1970 - Michael "Hambone" Albergo
June 17, 1971 – Car thief and race-car driver, Robert (Bobby the Racer) Pronger disappears from a Southside diner.
Oct. 19, 1971: Chicago mobster Salvatore (Sambo) Cesario, 53, is clubbed and shot to death by two masked men as he sat with his wife in lawn chairs in front of his home smoking a cigar.
August 8, 1972 – Outfit associate and mob strong arm Guido (Weeds) Fidanzi gunned down in front of the gas station he owned.
September 2, 1972 – South Bend, Indiana chop shop operator Roger Croach shot to death the same day his auto yard is raided by the FBI
September 3, 1972 – South Bend, Indiana chop shopper Mike Ragan, Croach’s partner, was kidnapped and killed the very next day. He was found shot to death and left on a Starke County, Indiana road.
September 27, 1972: Labor union-connected Chicago mob associate, Billy Logan, 37, a Teamsters steward and ex-husband of Aleman’s cousin, is shotgunned to death in front of his home.
June 23, 1973 – Las Vegas bookie and loanshark William (Joey Red) Klimm is gunned down in the parking lot of the Churchill Downs Race Book. The Klimm murder was the first headline-grabbing hit of the Spilotro era in Vegas. Klimm was resisting shakedown efforts from Spilotro’s crew of misfits, ,many of whom traveled West with him from Illinois. The Ant was charged with the homicide, but had the case thrown out before trial.
Salvatore (Mad Sam) DeStefano – The sadistic Chicago mafia enforcer and hit man was shotgunned to death on August 14, 1973, allegedly by his protégé, Tony Spilotro, in a Windy City garage. The hit was ordered due to Mad Sam’s increasingly-outlandish and unstable behavior, publically on display at his murder trial for the gangland-killing of mob associate Leo Foreman shortly before he died. DeStefano took pleasure in his craft and enjoyed inflicting pain; he and Spilotro, both acquitted in the Foreman murder, killed a fellow underworld figure, suspected informant and strong arm William (Action) Jackson, by stringing up on a meet-hook and torturing him to death with an electric cattle prod.
July 16, 1973: James Leonetti shot to death by two masked gunmen.
Nov 22, 1973: Samuel Marcello.
Nov 22, 1973: Joseph Grisafe.
December 20, 1973 - Richard Cain.Notoriously corrupt Chicago Police Department officer and Outfit soldier was shot-gunned to death inside a sandwich shop on the city’s westside. Caifano was in the sandwich shop in the hours leading up to the slaying and engaged in a feud with Caifano in the months preceding the hit regarding a burglary ring both were involved in and Caifano believed Cain was trading intelligence to the detectives working an investigation into him for cash.
Jan 27, 1974: Wayne Cascone.
Feb. 24, 1974: Chicago mob associate and expert counterfeiter, Socrates (Sammy Paper) Rantis, 43, is found with his throat slashed and with puncture wounds in his chest in the trunk of his wife’s car at O’Hare airport parking terminal.
April 21, 1974: Chicago mob associate, counterfeiter and “Sammy Paper’s” funny money apprentice, Billy Simone, 29, is found in the back seat of his car with his hands and feet bound and a gunshot wound in the head.
July 13, 1974: Chicago mob associate Orion Williams, 38, a suspected mob informant, is found shotgunned to death in the trunk of his girlfriend’s car.
September 27, 1974 - Daniel Siefert
Sept. 28, 1974: Chicago mob associate Bobby Harder, 39, a jewel thief and burglar who was believed to have become an informant, is found shot in the face in a bean field near Dwight, Ill. Previously, Harder had escaped a hit attempt by Aleman and current Outfit Cicero crew capo, James (Jimmy I) Inendino.
Jan 13, 1975: Norman Lang.
Jan. 16, 1975: Chicago mob associate and collector Carlo Divivo, 46, is killed by two masked men who opened fire with a shotgun and a pistol as he walked out of his house
May 12, 1975 – Mob associate and Caesars Palace casino pit boss Marty Buccieri is shot to death for demanding a finder’s fee for helping broker financing for casino executive Allen Glick’s Argent Corp. (owners of The Stardust, The Hacienda, The Fremont and The Marina) via contacts in the Chicago and Milwaukee mafia syndicates. Buccieri was a cousin of Chicago mafia capo Fiore (Fifi) Buccieri and his brother Frank (The Horse) Buccieri, the Outfit’s liaison to Milwaukee’s Balestrieri crime family.
May 12, 1975: Chicago mob associate Ronnie Magliano, 43, an Outfit fence, is found blindfolded and shot behind the left ear in his set-ablaze residence.
June 16, 1975 – Windy City chop shopper Harry Holzer and his girlfriend Linda Turner are shot to death inside their home. Holzer was the co-owner of South Chicago Auto Parts with Outfit associate Steve (Stevie O) Ostrowsky. Their one-time partner-in-crime Harry Carson was blown up in a car bomb in 1969.
June 19, 1975: Chicago cop and Outfit loanshark Chris Cardi, 43, is shot eight times in the back and once in the face by two masked men as his wife and children looked on inside Jim’s Beef Stand in Melrose Park.
June 19, 1975 - Sam (Momo) Giancana – The former boss of the Chicago mafia was slain inside his Oak Park, Illinois home on less than a year after returning to Illinois following over a half-dozen years in Mexico, where he amassed a fortune in international gambling ventures. Giancana, a flash-bulb friendly like Chicago Godfather Al Capone before him, who dated movie stars and hobnobbed with politicians, was set to testify in front of a U.S. Senate committee investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a Giancana associate, in the weeks following murder. FBI records indicate that Giancana was killed by a close friend (his driver “Butch” Blasi and one of his protégés Tony Spilotro were the two top suspects), shot in the back of the head and then six more times in the body, while cooking a meal of sausage and peppers on the stove in his kitchen. Giancana angered the Chicago mafia hierarchy with his refusal to share profits from his offshore gambling interests and its worry of him getting loose lips in front of the Senate.
July 1975 – Outfit associate, enforcer and car theft ring operator Jesse Richardson is gunned down in Cicero.
Aug 25, 1975: Robert Passarella.
Aug. 28, 1975: Greek Chicago mob associate Frank Goulakos, 47, a federal informant, is shot six times by a masked man near DiLeo’s Restaurant, where he worked as a cook.
Aug. 30, 1975: Greek Chicago mob associate and bookie Nick (Keggie) Galanos, 48, is found shot nine times in the head in the basement of his home.
Sept 22, 1975: Alan Alberts shot in the head & chest.
October 1975 – Outfit associate, car thief and Richardson’s partner in his chop shop racket Ronnie Munson is killed.
October 6, 1975 - A Chicago mobster that testified against a slew of Outfit administrators, including capos and eventual Outfit bosses Jack (Jackie the Lackey) Cerone and Joseph (Joe Nick) Ferriola as well as his gangland mentor Frank (Frankie the Knife) Aurelli, before relocating to Tempe, Arizona via the Witness Protection Program, Bombacino was killed by a car bomb as he pulled out of his driveway on the morning of October 6, 1975. At the time of his flipping, Louie the Baker, sponsored for membership into the mafia by Aurelli in a 1958 ceremony in Illinois, was considered one of the most significant underworld turncoats in the FBI’s war against the mob.
Oct, 1975: Ronnie Munson
Oct. 31, 1975: Chicago mob associate and bookie Anthony Reitinger, 34, is shot to death in Mama Luna’s restaurant by two masked men.
November 1975 – Outfit associate and car thief Donnell Crawford is killed
November 9, 1975 – Casino investor Tamara Rand, one of Allen Glick’s partners who was threatening to sue him for blocking purchase of more shares in Argent, is killed inside her San Diego home. In Casino, the character based on Rand was called Anna Scott.
December 1975 – Outfit associate and car thief Jimmy Small is killed.
Jan. 31, 1976: Chicago mob associate Louie DeBartolo, 29, a heavy gambler deeply in debt to Outfit bookmakers, is found shot in the head and with his neck punctured four times with a broken mop handle in the rear of the store where he was employed.
May 1, 1976: Chicago mob associate Jimmy Erwin, 28, an ex-convict who was suspected in the murders of two other reputed mobsters, is killed by two masked men with a shotgun and a .45 caliber pistol. He was shot 13 times as he stepped out of his car.
June 13, 1976 - Don Bolles – An Arizona investigative newspaper reporter that got on the bad side of the mafia, Bolles wound up blown to bits in a car bomb that detonated on the afternoon of June 13, 1976 in Phoenix’s Hotel Clarendon. Unrelenting in his pursuit of the mob in Arizona, he was called to the Clarendon to meet a supposed new source for a story he was working on. As Bolles’, 47, lied dying in the rubble of the blast that killed him, he uttered “Emprise,” to responding police and medics the name of a horse and dog-racing business linked to corruption between the Detroit and St. Louis mafia families’ hidden ownership in Las Vegas’ Frontier Casino and the subject of the piece he was writing for the Arizona Republic. Detroit mob underboss Peter (Horseface Pete) Licavoli lived in the Phoenix area at the time of Bolles slaying. John Adamson was convicted of making and planting the bomb that killed Bolles and told the authorities that he was hired by a man named Max Dunlap, someone connected to a mobbed-up liquor distribution company.
June 24, 1976 - Paul Haggerty
July 22, 1976: Kansas City mafia soldier David Bonadonna, 61, is fatally shot and found in his car trunk in Missouri. His murder was one of several unsolved gangland slayings connected to a local mob war in Kansas City stemming from the fight to control KC’s then-trendy River Quay entertainment district.
August 1, 1976 – Mob associate Jay Vandermark, the point man in charge of the skim operation on the floor of The Stardust, disappears upon being sought for questioning by the feds in a theft and hidden ownership probe. The FBI raided The Stardust in May 1976, the same month Vandermark bolted town for Arizona. Vandermark was the slot supervisor at The Stardust and last seen alive in Phoenix with members of the Spilotro’s Arizona crew. He’s believed to have been murdered in Mexico to prevent him from giving the mob up to save himself and his son. Vandermark’s name is changed to John Nance in the movie Casino and the location of his murder moved from Mexico to Costa Rica. Nance ending up in a swimming pool in the script was taken from a real mob hit committed by the Spilotro crew three years later.
October 5, 1976 – Trusted Illinois mob associate and chop-shop specialist Steve (Stevie O) Ostrowsky is slain in the parking lot of a wrecking plant business he owned on the Southside of Chicago, caught in the crossfire of an internal Outfit power struggle staged over the chop-shop racket (in essence a war within a war) pitting Jimmy Cataura and his primary muscle, Billy Dauber, against his main rival in the Chicago Heights crew Albert (Caesar the Fox) Tocco. Stevie O reported to Dauber and Cataura and was their man on the scene at Ground Zero.
Oct 8, 1976: Frank Plum shot four times in the head in an alley. His son Joseph was also murdered in 1981 shot in the head.
October 8, 1976 – MGM Grand casino baccarat dealer Peter Bufala is slain in his driveway.
November 21, 1976 – Mob associate and bookie Gerald (Fat Jerry) Delman, who ran Saratoga Race & Sportsbook for Spilotro in Downtown Vegas, is murdered. Delman had worked for Spilotro back in Chicago and handled gambling affairs for The Ant in Indianapolis.
December 15, 1976 – Mob associate and drug dealer Rick Manzie is found shot to death inside the Las Vegas mansion he shared with his wife, singer and actress Barbara McNair. Manzie, a Chicago native, was close friends with Tony Spilotro and Spilotro is caught on an FBI wire in the months that followed vowing revenge on the killers. Others believe, it was all a ruse, and Spilotro killed Manzie himself.
Jamuary 13, 1977 – Outfit associate and Northwest Indiana chop-shopper Norm Lang is shot to death and found in the trunk of his car
February 24, 1977 – Las Vegas labor union leader and mob associate Al Bramlet is kidnapped and murdered by Tom Hanley and his son Gramby for refusing to pay them for bombings they did for him. Bramlet was president of Nevada’s AFL-CIO and the secretary-treasurer of the Las Vegas Culinary Workers Union Local 226. He was taken from the airport at gunpoint and then killed execution style in the desert. Spilotro held influence with Bramlet.
March 4, 1977 – Outfit associate and car thief Pat Marusarz is killed at a card game.
March 15, 1977 - Henry Cosentino
March 29, 1977: Chicago mafia soldier and hit man Chuckie Nicoletti, 60, is shot three times in the back of the head while sitting in his car parked in front of the Golden Horns Restaurant in a suburban Northlake.
April 23, 1977 – Jeff Vandermark, the drug junkie son of Jay Vandermark, is bludgeoned to death inside his Las Vegas apartment. The younger Vandermark’s addiction is referenced in the John Nance storyline in Casino.
June 13, 1977 – Outfit associate and chop-shop specialist Richie Ferraro disappears. Ferraro, who wned Statewide Auto Wrecking, was Stevie O’s replacement as Cataura and Dauber’s point man in the car-theft racket
June 15, 1977: Chicago mob associate Joey Theo, 33, a burglar involved in stolen auto parts, is found with two shotgun wounds to the head in the back seat of a car parked on the city’s southside.
July 7, 1977 – Outfit associate and car thief Earl Abercrombie, another Annerino confidant, is found shot to death in the trunk of his car.
July 22, 1977: Joseph LaRose.
July 22, 1977: John Vische.
July 22, 1977: Donald Marchbank.
July 22, 1977: Malcolm Russell, All four men were led into an elevator one by one and shot in the head, neck and chest.
July 25, 1977 – Chicago mob lieutenant and Cataura strong-arm Sam (Sammy the Mule) Annerino is gunned down in Oak Lawn, Illinois leaving a furniture store.
July 24, 1977 – The Park Ridge Massacre: Chicago Outfit associates Joe LaRose, John Viache, Malcom Russell and Don Marchbanks are killed execution style in their offices in Park Ridge, Illinois. The four men were partners in a alarm company being used by the mob to wash Las Vegas skim money and suspected of trying to swindle some for themselves.
August 25, 1977 – Outfit associate and car thief Jimmy Palaggi, closely aligned with Annerino, Abercrombie and Theo, is found shot to death in the backseat of a van
October 18, 1977 - Ray Ryan.Millionaire businessman, oil tycoon, gambling junkie and Chicago mob associate, Ryan was blown up in a car bomb in the parking lot of his Evansville, Indiana health club. Ryan had testified against Caifano in an extortion case and had tried to bribe his way out of a murder contract upon Caifano’s release from prison.
January 15, 1978 – Outfit burglar John Mendell disappears 11 days after leading a break-in of Accardo’s house as payback for Accardo ordering Mendell and his crew to return a giant score from the robbery of a jewelry store they had pulled off in the days before Christmas 1977. The owner of the jewelry store was a friend of Accardo’s and requested the Big Tuna’s aid in retrieving the stolen merchandise. Mendell’s body wasn’t found until February 20, discovered in the trunk of his car on a southside street corner, naked, hogtied, stabbed and strangled to death.
January 16, 1978 - John Mendell
January 20, 1978 – Outfit burglar Bernard (Buddy) Ryan, second-in-command in the Mendell burglary ring, is found behind the wheel of his Lincoln Continental sitting on the side of a west-suburban street with four bullets lodged in the back of his head and his throat slit.
January 31, 1978 - Donald Renno and Vincent Moretti
February 2, 1978 – Outfit burglar Stevie Garcia, Ryan’s right-hand man, is found slain in the trunk of his car in a Sheraton Hotel parking lot by O’Hare Airport, stabbed to death with his throat slit.
February 4, 1978 – Outfit burglar and fence Vince Moretti and his buddy Don Renno are beaten to death, their throats slashed, in a Cicero bar in what became known in Chicago mob circles as the “Strangers in the Night Murders,” due to the fact that the song was playing on the bar’s jukebox as Moretti and Renno were being killed. Moretti was an ex-cop and seen wearing Accardo’s monogramed gold, diamond-encrusted cuff links around town in the days after the high-profile heist. While Moretti was a high-ranking member of Mendell’s crew, Renno, a small-time crook, wasn’t and just happened to be with Moretti when he was summoned to be clipped.
April 6, 1978 – Outfit burglar Robert (Bobby Toggs) Hertogs is found in the trunk of his car in a grocery store parking lot on Grand Avenue, shot in the back of the head and his throat slashed. Hertogs was connected to the Mendell crew and had fallen behind on a juice loan.
April 14, 1978 – Outfit burglar Johnny McDonald, the final Mendell crew member to get bumped off, is found lying dead in a westside alley, shot in the back of the head and his throat cut. McDonald allegedly was forced to set Buddy Ryan up to be killed.
July 28, 1978 – Chicago mob crew leader James (Jimmy the Bomber) Cataura is gunned down behind the wheel of his red-colored Cadillac on a Westside street corner, paving the way for Albert Tocco to grab complete control of the Chicago Heights crew and the Outfit’s lucrative chop-shop tax.
October 5, 1978 – The Accardo residence’s Sicilian caretaker Michael Volpe vanishes on his way to work in the days after testifying too candidly in front of a federal grand jury investigating the string of slayings linked to the break-in.
May 22, 1979 – Outfit lieutenant and hit man Anthony (Little Tony) Borselino is found in a Will County cornfield shot in the back of the head. Borselino was part of the infamous Wild Bunch, a westside troop of assassins dispatched on the Chicago mob’s most pressing murder assignments, and suspected in taking part in a number of the slayings tied to the fallout from the break-in.
May 23, 1979 – Outfit associate Timmy O’Brien, a salvage yard owner and former friend and business partner of Richie Ferraro is found shot to death in the trunk of his car in Blue Island, Illinois
June 17, 1979 — West Coast sports promotor and agent Vic Weiss is found murdered in a North Hollywood hotel parking lot, hogtied, shot twice in the back of the head and stuffed in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. Weiss represented “outlaw” UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian and was a staple on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1970s, often running in the same circles as Spilotro. At the time of his death, Weiss was negotiating a contract that never came to fruition for Tarkanian to coach the L.A. Lakers. He left a meeting with Lakers ownership on the late afternoon of June 14 and was never seen alive again.
July 1979 – Outfit associate and car thief Don Lawson is killed.
September 18, 1979 – Outfit lieutenant and hit man Gerald (Jerry the Dinger) Carusiello is shot in the back of the head and left on the concrete an in Addison, Illinois apartment complex parking lot. Carusiello was a driver and bodyguard for Accardo’s acting boss Joseph (Joey Doves) Aiuppa and suspected in at least one of the fallout slayings.
October 11, 1979 – Mob associate and con man Jerry Lisner is shot to death and dumped in his swimming pool by Tony Spilotro’s right-hand man Frank Cullota. Lisner was believed to have been testifying in front of a federal grand jury looking into Spilotro crew activity. Lisner’s murder is shown in Casino, but the character killed was, “John Nance,” based on Jay Vandermark.
