https://gangsterreport.com/civella-...city-mafia-murder-timeline-1970-present/https://gangsterreport.com/the-hit-list-kansas-city/https://gangsterreport.com/sam-palm...topic-in-k-c-mafia-a-half-century-later/http://www.americanmafia.com/cities/kansas_city.html1919 - Frank Carramusa - a young boy was killed in KC Little Italy by Paul Catanzaro,Carramusa’s father was a fruit peddler who couldn’t put together enough money to pay the Black Hand what they said he owed them.Catanzaro was caught in his murderous act and nearly beaten to death by outraged neighbors. n a cryptic twist of fate, the murdered boy’s brother, Carl Carramusa, would later join the Mafia and become brothers in blood with Paul Catanzaro. Many years later, in the early 1940’s, Carl Carramusa would testify against his fellow mobsters in a case involving an international heroin conspiracy between the KC, St. Louis and Tampa Families.
July 10, 1934 - John (Brother Johnny) Lazia – Kansas City’s late Prohibition Era mafia chief and first LCN don, Lazia was killed in the early-morning hours of July 10, 1934 by machine-gun wielding assailants as he exited a vehicle driven by his underboss and best friend Charles (Charlie the Wop) Carrollo outside his house after a night on the town. Lazia was K.C’s first gangster celebrity and was a mainstay in the city’s newspaper headlines and trendy nightclubs. Later in his life, Brother Johnny feuded with a former lieutenant of his named, Michael (Jimmy Needles) La Capra, who went to the area’s giant political machine for support in overthrowing Lazia. As he lay dying in Kansas City’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lazia is alleged to have told an attending physician, “Doc, what I can’t understand is why anybody would want to do this to me, Johnny Lazia, someone who’s been a friend to everybody?†Some speculated that Carrollo sold-out Lazia to La Capra, the suspected gunmen, so he could eventually assume power, which he did (arranging for La Capra’s banishment from KC and subsequent slaying) .
August 18, 1935 - Michael (Jimmy Needles) LaCapra – The heroin-addicted hit man and alleged killer of Lazia in an unsuccessful power-grab less than a year earlier, La Capra was murdered on August 18, 1935, while in hiding in New York. Lured to his death with the promise of drugs, Jimmy Needles, at one time Kansas City’s No. 1 opium and ‘H’ importer and wholesaler, was found at an upstate farm, shot twice in the back of the head.
March 16, 1938 - Antonio Cammisa "Tony Shirt" of Kansas City was found slain in an abandoned car west of the Elms garage on South Kansas City Avenue in Excelsior Springs on March 16, 1938. The car was registered to "Anthony Shortino." He had been shot eight times and beaten. He was one of Kansas City's fifty "outstanding police characters," convicted of narcotic charges and assaulting a Kansas City building inspector.
June 6, 1945 - Carlo Carramusa – Born in Chicago, Carramusa was a Kansas City mafia drug lieutenant that turned government informant and testified at trial against several fellow mob narcotics conspirators, prior to being whacked on June 6, 1945. Booted from Missouri, Carramusa had moved back to the Windy City and literally had his head blown off by a sawed-off shot gun-holding assassin in front of his teenage daughter as they entered their house.
April 5, 1950 - Charles Binaggio and Charles (Mad Dog) Gargotta - Ruling over the area’s rackets as Kansas City’s mafia boss for the entire decade of the 1940s, Binaggio and his underboss and top enforcer, Charles (Mad Dog) Gargotta were gunned down on the evening of April 5, 1950 at the First Ward Democratic Club, after Binaggio fell out of favor with the LCN National Commission in New York City for his greediness and unwillingness to take orders. The double homicide was never solved, but Binaggio’s successor and close friend, Anthony (Fat Tony) Gizzo, was suspected of taking the contract from the New York dons and coordinating the hits.
January 6,1966 - Salvatore "Sam" Palma - the FBI believes Palma, a restauranteur, K.C. mafia soldier, bookie and loan shark, was kidnapped and killed as he ran away from his assailants in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in the early hours of January 6, 1966, felled with a shot to the back and then finished off with a kill-shot to the back of his skull while he lied helpless and wounded on the cold earth. In addition to DeLuna and other known members of the Civella crime family being called into FBI headquarters for questioning in the matter, then-Chicago mob boss Sam (Teetz) Battaglia was brought in to talk to investigators in the weeks after Palma showed up dead as well.
July 15, 1970 — Civil Rights leader Leon Jordan is gunned down outside his Green Duck Tavern on a murder contract issued by the Civella crime family and carried out by the Kansas City Black mob. Jordan punched a Civella- politician and got into a spat with Black mob boss James (Doc) Dearborn over a woman.
July 22, 1976 – Kansas City mob soldier David Bonadonna is found dead in the trunk of his Mustang. Bonadonna was shot in the back of the head. He was feuding with Godfather Nick Civella and Civella’s street boss Willie (The Rat) Cammisano over control of the city’s River Quay nightlife district.
November 17, 1976 – Kansas City wiseguy John (Johnny B) Brocato is found shot to death and stuffed in the trunk of his car at the airport. Brocato was a Bonadonna loyalist.
February 19, 1977 – Kansas City mobster John (Johnny Green) Amaro is shot to death in his garage. Amaro was a Civella soldier.
February 22, 1977 – Kansas City mob associate Harold (Sonny) Bowen is shot-gunned to death inside a crowded Pat O’Brien’s bar in the heart of the River Quay district on the evening of Amaro’s wake. Bowen, a Bonadonna bodyguard and enforcer, is believed to have killed Amaro. Pat O’Brien’s would soon be leveled in a bombing.
August 5, 1977 – Kansas City mob associate Gary Parker is blown up in a car bomb in his driveway. Parker was a Bonadonna loyalist.
May 2, 1978 – Kansas City underworld figure Myron (Alley Cat Andy) Mancuso, a professional thief and Cammisano crew member, is shot to death behind the wheel of his car. Mancuso was last seen alive leaving a 24-hour diner with Willie the Rat’s son and protégé William (Little Willie) Cammisano, Jr., less than a hour before being found dead.
May 4, 1978 – Kansas City underworld figure Michael (Minuteman Mike) Massey, Mancuso’s partner-in-crime in a high-end burglary ring, is shot to death behind the wheel of his car. Massey had been a part of a K.C. mob crew headed by Anthony (Tiger) Cardarella and was an FBI informant.
May 17, 1978 – Kansas City underworld figure Mike Spero, a rogue independent mobster who, along with his two brothers (Joe and Carl) teamed with David Bonadonna to take on the Civella syndicate, is slain in the infamous Virginian Tavern Massacre. The brazen attack staged at the Spero crew’s headquarters was allegedly ordered by Willie the Rat.
June 18, 1980 – Kansas City underworld figure Joe Spero, Mike’s brother who survived the Virginian Tavern Massacre, is killed in a bombing. He was allegedly tinkering with booby-trapped explosives in his work shed on his farm when they exploded.
January 6, 1984 – Kansas City underworld figure Carl Spero, Mike and Joe’s brother who was wheelchair-bound from the Virginian Tavern Massacre, is blown up at his Five-Star Investment Used Cars lot
February 9, 1984 – Kansas City mafia captain Anthony (Tiger) Cardarella, disappears after attending a meal with his wife and kids at a local restaurant and isn’t found until three weeks later, strangled to death in the trunk of his car in parking lot of freight company warehouse on February 27. Tiger Cardarella and his longtime partner-in-crime Felix (Little Phil) Ferina were plotting against Willie the Rat in the wake of Nick Civella’s passing of lung cancer in 1983.
September 19, 1984 – Kansas City mafia captain Felix (Little Phil) Ferina, Cardarella’s trusted gangland compatriot, is shot to death in front of his house. Ferina had reportedly convinced Cardarella that they needed to move against Cammissano.
January 14, 1985 — Kansas City Black mob boss James (Doc) Dearborn is gunned down outside a liquor store across the street from a hotel drug den he operated out of. Dearborn ran the city’s Purple Capsule Gang (PCG) for two decades and might have been in on Cardarella and Ferina’s plan to overthrow Willie the Rat.
August 18, 1988 — Kansas City mob associate Roger Reid is found strangled to death inside a hotel room. Reid was in a beef with his childhood pal Little Willie Cammisano over golf course gambling debts stemming from a trip to Las Vegas.
December 17, 1990 — Kansas City mob associate Larry Strada, who owned a suburban bar that a lot of made guys hung out at and testified in front of a grand jury related to a 1989 gambling bust of a Civella bookmaking operation, is shot to death outside his home in Gladstone, Missouri.
November 27, 1996 –– Kansas City mob bookie Harold Ash is gunned down outside his residence after leaving a riverboat casino with $4,000 in winnings.
