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In 1991, Spero ordered the murder of Vincent Bickelman, a burglar from Brooklyn. In August 1991, Bickelman had broken into the home of Spero's daughter Jill and stolen her jewelry and a fur coat. On September 15, 1991, Bickelman's body, with six bullet wounds, was discovered near his apartment in Bath Beach. [6]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Graziano was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $250,000. In 1994, Graziano ordered his crew to find and kill John Pappa and Calvin Hennigar, both mobsters with the Colombo crime family. [citation needed] On one occasion, the two men had fired shots inside a topless bar in Staten Island owned by Graziano, wounding one patron. An ...
Police said DeLucia shot his siblings — Joanne Kearns, 69; Frank DeLucia, 71, and Tina Hammond, 64 — as well as Hammond’s daughter, Victoria Hammond, 30, on Sunday, two days after his mother ...
ROME (Reuters) - Claudio Graziano, the chairman of Italian state-controlled shipbuilder Fincantieri, has been found dead, the company said in a statement on Monday, confirming earlier media reports.
Graziano's truck was described in an Amber Alert regarding Savannah's abduction and was spotted by a civilian who saw the girl and her father on Sept. 27, the day after her mother was fatally shot.
John V. "Johnny Three Fingers" Leone – a Pittsburgh associate who was involved in narcotics trafficking. [47] Leone was Eugene Gesuale's top lieutenant and a major player in the "Pittsburgh Connection" a drug trafficking operation along with Pagans motorcycle gang boss Daniel Zwibel with drug trafficking. [103] [106] [107] Leone died January ...
John "Big John" Contello – capo operating from Brooklyn and Florida. Contello is a former acting capo of the Joseph "Junior" Chilli's crew. [ 206 ] Contello was a target of an August 28, 2008, indictment that charged him with racketeering, illegal gambling and conspiracy. [ 207 ]