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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.
According to testimony given by Cleveland crime family underboss-turned-government witness Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on April 15, 1988, Mafia soldier Thomas "The Chinaman" Sinito had informed Lonardo and Licavoli of a murder threat against the pair by Bonarrigo, and was ...
Anthony Edward Sowell (August 19, 1959 – February 8, 2021) [2] was an American serial killer and rapist known as The Cleveland Strangler. He was convicted in 2011 of murdering 11 women whose bodies were discovered at his Cleveland , Ohio, home in 2009.
The 2022 crime rate in Ohio is virtually unchanged from 2019. ... Akron and Cleveland police departments each had an 87% unsolved rate and Columbus police had an 85% unsolved rate in 2022.
Daniel John Patrick Greene (November 14, 1933 – October 6, 1977) was an American mobster in Cleveland, Ohio, whose conflicts with the Cleveland crime family of the Italian-American Mafia ended in Greene's murder in 1977. Greene would build a close working relationship with Shondor Birns, as neither of them could become a "made" man in the ...
Joseph Lonardo (Italian pronunciation:; October 20, 1884 – October 13, 1927), also known as "Big Joe", was an American mobster who became the first crime boss of the Cleveland crime family, which he structured from a number of competing organized crime gangs.
The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, was an unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in the 1930s. The killings were characterized by the dismemberment of thirteen known victims and the disposal of their remains in the impoverished neighborhood of Kingsbury Run . [ 1 ]
On January 26, 2017, Alianna DeFreeze, a fourteen-year-old girl from Cleveland, Ohio, was kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered by Christopher Whitaker. [1] [2] Whitaker, who had a criminal history involving grand theft, burglary, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, [3] and sexual assault, [4] took DeFreeze to an abandoned house, where he raped her.