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John Nardi (January 21, 1916 − May 17, 1977) was an influential associate of the Cleveland crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in Cleveland, Ohio. At the end of his criminal career, Nardi turned against his crime family in a bloody gang war.
The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area. The organization formed during the 1900s, and early leadership turned over frequently due to a series of power grabs and assassinations.
Alfred Polizzi (born Alfonso Polizzi; Italian pronunciation: [alˈfɔnso poˈlittsi]; March 15, 1900 – May 26, 1975) was a Sicilian emigrant to the United States who was boss of the Cleveland crime family in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935 to 1945.
Beverly Rose Potts (April 15, 1941 – disappeared August 24, 1951) was a ten-year-old American girl who disappeared while walking home from a neighborhood festival event held in a park less than a quarter of a mile from her Cleveland, Ohio home.
Ariel Castro (July 10, 1960 – September 3, 2013) was born in Duey, Yauco, Puerto Rico, the son of Pedro Castro and Lillian Rodriguez. [11] His parents divorced when he was a child, and he moved to the contiguous United States with his mother and three biological siblings.
John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive.On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared.
He was arrested last month after an off-duty police officer watched him drop a 4-month-old baby girl at a Walmart in Miami-Dade, according to police. Abbott, who was charged with child abuse with ...
Alex Birns (February 21, 1907 – March 29, 1975), best known as Shondor Birns, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure, racketeer and crime boss from Cleveland, Ohio, who was once labeled by the local newspapers as the city's "Public enemy No. 1".