Italian-Australian OC Murders
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February 11,1930 - Domenico Belle
A Mafia-style organisation known as the Camorra began to make inroads into Australia during the 1920s. After arriving in Sydney from Italy, the group set themselves up in a number of businesses, including greengrocers and hairdressers and on farms in regional areas. Under this cover, they were said to be involved in sly grog, blackmail, insurance fraud, arson, prostitution and the cocaine trade.
In Sydney, the group’s three principal office-bearers were Giuseppe Mammone, Filippo Pignataro and Domenico Belle. Mammone already had a complex criminal history before coming to Sydney. In a manuscript about his life that was found during a police raid, he claimed that in 1919 he had been sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing a man in New York; however, the day before he was to be executed he was granted a new trial, at which he received a two-year sentence. On his release, he left New York for Italy and then travelled to Sydney.
Mammone, Pignataro and Belle came to New South Wales Police attention in 1930, when Belle was murdered. On 11 February, two Italian men passed through the turnstile at Newtown Railway Station, in the city’s inner west. One of the men was Belle; the second man has never been identified. Witnesses said that at the top of the stairs to the station, the unidentified man plunged a dagger into his companion’s breast. Belle slumped to the ground, and died soon afterwards.
April 4th 1963 - Vincenzo Angilletta.
Went again the official ndrina creating his own ndrana called “La Bastarda”, or the Bastard Society sources claiming it as containing nearly 300 members at its peak.Angilletta scorned DeMarte’s authority (official capobastone) quite publicly to the Society, a dangerous breach of protocol that would have left DeMarte with an ever shortening list of options for how to deal with Angilletta. Considering DeMarte’s likely tenuous grip on his only very recently assumed position amongst the Society, a popular member expressing such protests and noncompliance would likely have driven him into one of his rages.
Angilletta met his demise during the very early hours of April 4th 1963 when he arrived at the home he shared with his wife and seven children in Northcote, Melbourne. While parking in his driveway, he was murdered via two shotgun blasts through the rear car door windows; his wife Maria found him dead in the driver seat with the car still running. His eldest son, only fourteen years old at the time, admitted to police that before they had arrived on the scene he had gone and removed his father’s pistol from the car, later showing investigators where he had hidden it. The murder remains officially unsolved, despite full knowledge of the motives and circumstances surrounding.
November,26th, 1963 - -Born 1922, Delianova, Reggio Calabria
Arrived in Melbourne aboard the SAN REMO, on January 17 1938, aged 17.
Record of violence even before being acquitted of the 1945 murder of Fat Joe Versace, alongside Michele Scriva and Domenico Pezzimenti.
Commission Agent, Victoria Markets
Boss elect after death of Italiano, recognised as a leading figure as far back as the 1957 Brunswick meeting, which he called in response to percieved insults from one of the Tripodi brothers.
Shot by Angiletta loyalists after which he stood down.
January 16th 1964 - Vincenzo Muratore
Some remnants of the Angilletta faction continued to operate in defiance, next targeting Vincenzo Muratore a Melbourne specialises in violent greengrocers. Vincenzo's death, in 1964, shows just how deep and how far the link between fresh fruit and veg and the underworld in this city is. Vincenzo was shot by a double-barrelled shotgun as he left his Hampton home to head to the Queen Victoria Market. Why was the market so key to the mafia's operations? Two reasons. First, the vast supply chain was very useful shipping another plant – dope. Even easier, because the Mafia controlled supply they could stick a 50 cent tax on top of every pallet of legal consumables shipped. A tidy profit maker.
15 July 1977 - Donald Bruce MacKay
ManKay was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977 and is thought to have been murdered, but his body has never been found. The case remains unsolved.Robert Trimbole alleged ordered the murder.
Rocco Medici and Giuseppe Furina – 1984
When Rocco Medici's body was found, the ears had been cut off. His brother in law, Giuseppe Furina, also murdered, kept his. It's not known why. Both bodies were dumped in the Murrumbidgee? River. Reports claim police were told Liborio Benvenuto, Frank's dad, ordered their murder in response to a failed car-bombing attempt on Liborio's life.
August 1,1988 - Giuseppe Joe Arena aka The Friendly Godfather
Born September 28, 1937.
Fined in 1951 for possessing an automatic weapon. At the time was head-waiter at popular Italian restaurant, Mario’s
Served 2 years for manslaughter in 1977, having killed a man his wife’s secret loverKnown as money-launderer and senior figure by time of death
Murdered outside his home at Bona Vista Road, Bayswater only 6 weeks after Benvenuto died. Murder remains unsolved. He’d been tapped by Benvenuto to become boss, with Alfonso Muratore being deemed unready.
August 4, 1992 - Alfonso Muratore
Alfonso was the son of Vincenzo, a deputy leader of the Calabrian Mafia in Melbourne. Father and son both died the same way, 28 years apart – shotgun, close range, just after they had left their Hampton homes.
Alfonso had been asked to take his father's place as head of the Mafia. However it appears he had a change of heart. Rumours persist Mr Muratore, who also went by "Fonse", was preparing to expose the Mafia's own fruit-and-veg extortion racket. Or he may have been killed for cheating on his wife. If anyone knows the answer, they are not telling.
January 16,1998 - Alphonse John Gangitano aka "Black Prince of Lygon Street" was the Carlton Crew boss until 1998 when was killed by Jason Moran because Gangitano was a troublemaker.
May 8,2000 – 52-year-old fruiterer Francesco "Frank" Benvenuto, was fatally shot while sitting in his car in the driveway of his Beaumaris home. Benvenuto was a major underworld figure in Melbourne and the son of Liborio Benvenuto (died 1988), considered to be at one time the "Godfather" of the city's mafia. Phone records show that as Benvenuto lay dying he managed to ring ex-employee and associate Victor Peirce on his mobile phone. Mick Gatto was suspected by some to have ordered the assassination,whereas others suggested the murder could be retribution for the death of Alfonso Muratore, a high ranking Mafia member shot dead on 4 August 1992.Police initially treated Gatto as a suspect but later offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.Mark Moran and Andrew Veniamin were later named as chief suspects.
February 6,2006 - Mario Condello
Mario was the last Mafia man to go down, his death perhaps signalling the end of Melbourne's mafia wars – or at least, that was the thinking at the time. Mr Condello's murder shares strong similarities with Joseph "Pino" Acquaro's?, who was gunned down on Tuesday in what looks like a professional hit.
Both are lawyers, both were believed to have crossed the mafia, and both are now dead.
Mr Condello, 53, laundered money for the Mafia, and was facing trial over conspiring to kill Carl Williams at the time of his death. He was ambushed as he returned home and fatally shot. His murder remains unsolved.
March 15,2016 - Joseph 'Pino' Acquaro
Acquaro was gunned down near his Brunswick East cafe,defender of various exponents of the 'Ndrangheta gangs active in Melbourne, he was allegedly murdered on March 14, 2016 by another Italian and not for mafia reasons.
The Australian investigators who indicted Vincenzo (Vincent) Crupi, also from Calabria, originally from a village in the province of Reggio, who had had a series of disagreements with the famous criminal lawyer.
