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On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
Tours of the facility will be held on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and are scheduled to start on Friday, Sept. 13, and run until Oct. 26. The tours, which will last two hours, will be guided ...
Kansas City police officers switched the evidence tags on several guns recovered at the scene so as to shed doubt on the question of who held the murder weapon. Testimony of sheriff Bash and a ballistics expert placed the murder weapon securely in Gargotta's hands, but the jury had been bribed. Gargotta was acquitted of the homicide charge and ...
The Holden–Keating Gang was a bank robbing team, led by Thomas James Holden (April 22, 1895 – December 18, 1953) and Francis Lawrence Keating (January 3, 1899 – July 25, 1978), which was active in the Midwestern United States from 1926 to 1932.
Nicodemo Scarfo, "Little Nicky" (Philadelphia family member based in Atlantic City) (1929–2017) Giuseppe Schifilliti , "Pino" (born 1938) Gaetano Vastola , "Corky" (born 1928)
Nicolo Impastato (January 6, 1906- September 1979), also known as "Nick Tousa", was a Kansas City gangster. Nicolo Impastato was an admitted member of the Mafia who was born near Palermo, Sicily and became a Mafioso while still in Sicily. He fled to the U.S. in 1927 during Benito Mussolini's campaign to eradicate the Mafia in Sicily.
Vincenzo Colosimo [2] (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso koˈlɔːzimo]; February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering.
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