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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 .
Thomas "Yonnie" Licavoli (February 9, 1904 – September 17, 1973) was an American gangster and bootlegger during Prohibition.Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Licavoli, along with brother Peter Joseph Licavoli and cousin James Licavoli, worked with Jewish gangsters to take over illegal gambling in St. Louis.
Gaetano Lococo (1895–1993), also known as "Thomas" or "Tano", was a mobster identified as one of the "Five Iron Men" of Kansas City, Missouri by Americanmafia.com. Lococo was known within the Kansas City crime family as an enforcer in his early years. Later on, he controlled an interest in several illegal gambling establishments. [1]
Members of the community, the Lansing Historical Society and Museum and dignitaries gathered outside the Lansing Correctional Facility, which closed in 2020, for the transfer of keys on Monday ...
Herbert Allen Farmer (March 9, 1891 – January 12, 1948), was an American criminal who, with his wife Esther, operated a safe house in southwest Missouri for underworld fugitives from the mid-1920s to 1933.
April 21 – Illinois gangster Charles Birger is executed for the ordered murder of West City, Illinois Mayor Joe Adams. June 14- Mafia associate Samuel Stein is charged with killing Kansas City police officer James H. "Happy" Smith; June 26 – Timothy D. "Big Tim" Murphy is gunned down by assassins as he answered the door at his Chicago home.
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Pierpont was a Prohibition-era gangster, and friend and mentor to John Dillinger. [2] [10] Adam "Eddie" Richetti: 1909–1938 Richetti was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early 1930s, and both Floyd and he were later implicated in the Kansas City massacre.