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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.
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.
The discrepancies in Rush's confession were immediately apparent to Cleveland Police; he incorrectly described his victim as being 12-years-old, bespectacled, with shoulder-length brown hair — also insisting he had committed this murder in July 1952, whereas Potts was ten years old, with dark blonde, bobbed hair, had never worn glasses, and ...
Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT Last Updated: Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 6:05 PM EDT The Huffington Post gathered names, causes of death, dates of arrest and death, and other data for more than 800 people who died in jails and police lockups in the year following Sandra Bland’s death on July 13, 2015.
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.
Barger, aged 18, in a 1957 mugshot In 1956, Barger joined his first motorcycle club , the Oakland Panthers, which he founded with a group of fellow military veterans. [ 4 ] [ 12 ] After that club disbanded, he started riding with another group of bikers, one of whom, Don "Boots" Reeves, wore a patch that belonged to a defunct Nomads chapter of ...
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.
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.