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September 12,1910 - Giuseppe “Joseph” Cammarata - St Louis Fruit Supply Company stockholder and Mafioso Giuseppe “Joseph” Cammarata stabbed to death by Antonio Sansone.
December 24,1910 - Damiano Capuano - The first St Louis mafia boss was Damiano Capuano and he was shot to death Christmas eve December 1910 and was replaced by Gaetano Viviano.
January 19,1912 - Salvatore Leoni - Was the headless body found of Salvatore Leoni the star defense witness in the murder trial of Antonio Sansone. Dominic Giambrone was a prime suspect in the beheading of Salvatore Leoni.
December 17,1916 - Agostino Curella was killed in Cleveland by the Bonvissuto brothers that worked for the boss Dominick Giambrone.
Dominick Giambrone becomes the boss in 1917 and started a saloon at 826 Biddle Street. Dominick Giambrone was a prime suspect in the beheading of Salvatore Leoni. Dominick Giambrone worked with his brothers Paul and Nick Giambrone, Gaetano Buffa and Momo Anello.
February 14,1917 - Vicent Butera - Butera wasfound hacked to death in his saloon at 901 Biddle Street. He had been warned by Giambrone to close his business.
St Louis Black hand
Fruit market owner Mariano Russo and wife Augustina Palmisano had as sons William Russo (born 14 June 1892 and brother in law Charles Rizzo), Thomas Russo (born 4 July 1897), Vincent James Russo (22 october 1899), Anthony Russo (born 12 June 1901), John Russo (born 15 May 1905 and died 11 october 1918 at age 13) and Charles Russo (born 24 December 1910).
July 31,1920 -Carmelo Bonvissuto shot and killed by Angelo Naccarato.
August 7,1920 -Tom Spicuzza- was killed by Russo brothers.
September 1,1920 Angelo Bonvissuto,the Carmelo's brother was shot and killed.
October 12,1921 Michael Adragna and Joseph Giammanco (9 years old) - Frank Sicola was a suspect in the 12 October 1921 Wash Street drive by shooting that killed Michael Adragna (23) and Joseph Giammanco (9).
July 23,1922 -Frank Sicola was shot and killed.
St Louis boss Vito Giannola (Capone henchman)
In St Louis the members of the Black Hand get as leader Vito Giannola who had just arrived from Sicily with his brother John and their friend Alphons Palazzolo. Soon everybody in the Italian borough pays pizzo, when Garavelli’s Café (at 5701 De Giverville Avenue) cook Angelo Pastori refuses to buy his meat from Vito Giannola' whole sale company he gets 16 September 1923 stabbed to death by Palazzolo and then they mutilate his body even more with baseball bats.
Vito Giannola becomes the most important boss in St Louis.
March 3,1924 Joe Buselaki was killed after he had run afoul with Giannola.
September 12,1924 the body of bootlegger Sam Palizzola get found in St Louis, his skull was beaten in after which they dragged his body after a car at the orders of Giannola.
St Louis boss Vito Giannola
10 July 1925 Vito Giannola scares Peter Cusamano who runs from the city and divorced his wife Augustina Dattilo after which Vito Giannola starts to live with her and beats her up all the time.
September 14,1925 - John Gray and his wife Catherine get killed in the night.The Grays had a bar and when Giannola wanted them to sell his liquor they turned to the Cuckoos.
January 29,1926 the sheriffs Ohmer Hockett and John Balke find 2 men near an illegal still owned by Giannola, they want a bribe of the men their friends. When those arrive the 2 sheriffs have to dug their own shallow graves in which they get found.
May 21,1926 Mariano De Luca - was killed because refused to pay the pizzo to Giannola.
June 27,1926 the Giannola brothers murder bootlegger Harvey J Dunn after which the Irish gang "the Chuckoos" declare them war.
August 19,1926 the Cuckoos shoot at Frank Agrusa and Alphonse Palazzola in front of the club Santa Fara at Eight and Biddle streets and wound Adamo Girolamo and Frank Agrusa.
August 21,1926 the mafiosi try to kill their former supporter Pasquale Santino what goes wrong but they kill Joseph Schamora and wound a woman. Santino had changed sides to the Cuckoos because he wants to replace Giannola and he gets support from the Aiello brothers in Chicago.
Pasquale Santino becomes allies with a split faction from Giannola led by the Russo brothers. Anthony F Russo was the leader of the brothers William Russo, James Russo, Thomas Russo and Lawrence Russo.
September 6,1926 Cuckoo member Peter “Pete” Webbe get shot to death in his car by the Giannola faction.
September 22,1926 the Giannola faction also murder Joseph Consiglio in his car and he worked for Santino.
September 23,1926 The cuckoos shoot up the Submarine Bar and kill the owner Anthony Dattalo (who died 26 September 1926) who they wanted but also the innocents Frank Christian and the reporter Joseph Rubino.
Anthony F Russo and Vincent Spicuzza get into an ambush and are shot to death in their car at 9 august 1927, both have a dime in their hand. Russo and Spicuzza were not killed by McGurn, their killer Alphonse Palazzolo left the dimes to put the blame on McGurn (the other killer would have been Frank Agrusa and they were accompanied by Impastato and Jack Licavoli), but he started to brag about the murders and William Russo heard it and started the Italian gang war. Santino was against the hit on Tony Russo and V Spicuzza and this caused Giannola to turn on him. Santino knew he had to hit first and aided the Russos in killing Palazzolo. Santino was close to people in Detroit and NYC, he probably didn't support the Aiellos in Chicago perhaps he knew Mike Merlo the head of the Unione Siciliano in Chicago.
August 24,1927 Benny Giamanco (a friend of Russo and Spicuzza got killed with the innocent Aloys F Beelman.
September 9,1927 Giannola sends his killer Alphonse Palazzolo (30 of 1136 North Seventh street) who greets 9 September 1927 Santino with a handshake, after which 6 men blow Palizzola away with pistols and a lupara, also the playing child Emanuel Caprano (10) got killed.
November 10,1927 - Charles Palmisano was killed because he didn't want to pay protection money after Palizzola was killed.
November 10,1927 were Robert Aiello and Frank Aiello shot and killed in Springfield, Illinois, wounded were Lee Meachum and Vito Lapicola. Robert and Frank Aiello were killed for killing a rival, they were associates of Willie Russo. Willie Russo brother in law Tony Aiello.
November 11,1927 1927 - Jasper Aiello was killed with 15 shots over a bad liquor deal.
November 12, 1927 - Charles Casamento was killed, he was one of the killers of the Aiellos in St Louis.
November 15,1927 Benedetto Amato was killed,because he was a leader of the Green Ones.
November 17,1927 - the Green Ones kill Pasquale Santino. His loyal follower Carmelo Fresina and others then start their own faction of which Fresina became the boss. He fought the Green Ones and later the Russos.
St Louis faction boss Carmelo Fresina.
November 27,1927 - Nick Palazzola paid protection money to the Green Ones but still worked with their enemy William Russo (the brother of the killed Anthony F. Russo) so they killed him.
December 28,1927 at Vito Giannola's home rings the doorbell, when his wife opens there are several men who say they are policemen. Vito hears them and runs and hides in a shelter place. The men kick in the secret door to his shelter place and riddle him with machineguns, a happy widow Augustina Dattilo leaving behind, because her husband was abusing her. Several days later Vito’s brother John left St Louis, the war had cost 30 dead and 18 wounded. New boss of the Green ones became Frank Agrusa.
January 22, 1928 - Martin Maddalino was murdered . Joe Massa of Collinsville was held as a suspect
Joe Giardano (brother of Tony Giardano and Sam Giardano) was charged with the strangulation murder of the Italian gangster Salvatore Faraci in St Louis in August 1928.
In January 1929 Fresina and 2 members of his gang attended a meeting at the home of a Russo faction member and he gets wounded and his companions killed.
17 January 1930 was Ray Weaver shot and killed by his boss Carmelo Fresina (who pleaded self defense) at Fresina’s home. Ray Weaves was his former partner in a garage business.
March 12,1930 - thebootlegger Angelo Clementi was shot and killed by two men posing as prohibition agents.
In June 1930 Fresina, Dominic Cateldo and Anthony Di Trapani visited Charles Spicuzza (a fruit wholesaler) and they were attacked and Cateldo and Di Trapani were killed and Fresina was shot in the hip.
Matt Manzello was 12 September 1930 arrested as a witness of the murder of Charles Palmisano the wealthy president of the M. Longo Fruit Co. who was shot and killed 10 november 1927 as he stood in his doorway. That same night were Samuel and Robert Aiello murdered in Springfield, they were brothers of Tony Aiello of St Louis a brother in law of Willie Russo. Police said Matt Manzello knew about these murders and the earlier murder of Joseph Consiglio who was shot and killed in an automobile. His arrest was followed by the arrest of Frank Agrusa, Joseph Vitale, Michael and Frank Russo (cousins of Willie Russo), Leo Palmisano (from Kansas City), James Palmisano (from Kansas City) and Frank Palmisano (from Kansas City), Richard Victorino (from Kansas City), Carl Orlamdo (from Kansas City) and Samuel Calatrino (from Kansas City).
St Louis capo Frank Agrusa invaded Springfield in the early 30ties and there were at least 5 murders and a car bombing.
June 27,1933 ominick “Dan” Maddalino (proprietor of a tavern at Collinsville Park) was shot and killed by Louis Colone (former Collinsville policeman) in Maddalino’s bar.
In 1944 Frank "one ear" Fratto from Chicago's Des Moines murders St Louis green ones leader "Greenie" Frank "Greenie" Agrusa in Hot Springs, Arkansas. After which Frank "one ear" Fratto was made, Fratto was even picked up at the time. "Greenie" Frank Agrusa his green ones would merge with Frank Coppola's group after the war, they became allies and divided the area.
March 23,1947 - Gaetano "Tom" Buffa was shot to death in his car as he drove through Lodi (California), because he had testified that Joseph DeLuca's girlfriend had perjured herself. His gang merged with the Green Ones and John Vitale to form one St Louis family under Frank Coppola.
St Louis Family
Boss:Frank Coppola
Underboss:Anthony Lopiparo
Consiglieri:John Ferrara.
August 26,1951 - Joseph “Joe” Bommarito - Former acting boss Vito Cusumano shot and killed Joseph “Joe” Bommarito,he was a former employee who tried to set up a rival produce hauling firm to rural Illinois groceries.
In February 1956 Anthony Giardano and later Isadore Londe were arrested as suspects in the murder of Robert L Brown, a competitor in the vending business. Robert L Brown was of the W R Cigarette Co.
August 7,1963- Robin “Walkie Talkie” Roberts- a Smaldone family gambler and informant was killed by St Louis gangster Sam Shanks as a favor to Smaldones.
The LIUNA Local 42 murders – In 1965, a group of St. Louis gangland figures, Louie Shoulders, George (Stormy) Harvill and William (Shot Gun) Sanders, fought the area’s Italian mafia for control of Local 42 (LIUNA), setting off a decade and a half power struggle punctuated by extreme spats of violence. In the forthcoming years, Harvill (1966) and Shoulders (1972) are both murdered. By 1979, the flames of discontent still burned and when the Chicago mafia-backed Raymond Flynn challenged the St. Louis Syrian-mob staked John (Sonny) Spica to replace T.J. Harvill, Stormy’s brother (died of natural causes) as the Local’s President, the tensions boiled over to the point of Spica being blown to pieces in a car bomb in the weeks leading up to the election in November of that year.
October,1968 Thomas Rodgers owner of a mortuary supply company gets killed by John J Vitale. Rodgers partners were Vitale and Vincent Filipello.
October 2,1971 - Primo Frank "Larry" Caudera,a Flamingo junket promoter was found in the trunk of his Cadillac on a south St Louis street on 2 October 1971 he had disappeared since 30 September 1971 when he left his home. He had left his home to meet his extortionists who had demanded half of his profits because according to them his Flamingo junkets were cutting in on the Casino Dunes junkets operations. Following further interviews and investigation into the death of Caudera, officers of the St Louis Police Homicide section, on 13 October 1971 arrested Anthony Giardano, John Vitale and James Giammanco (nephew of Anthony Giardano), charging them with the murder of Caudera.
November 8, 1979 – St. Louis Italian mobster John (Sonny) Spica is killed in a car bombing in his driveway. Spica had been placed into a position in Local 42 of the LIUNA as Tony Giordano’s eyes and ears months earlier.
August 1,1994 - Frank C. "Chico" Parrino, 61, a close associate of the former St. Louis organized crime boss, was shot to death Sunday in the Hill neighborhood.
