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Being the inspiration and namesake of Alianna Alert. 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 ...
James T. Licavoli (born Vincentio Licavoli; August 18, 1904 − November 23, 1985), also known as "Jack White" or "Blackie", was an American mobster based in Cleveland, Ohio, who became boss of the Cleveland crime family in 1976. In 1982, Licavoli became one of the earliest organized crime figures to be convicted under the Racketeer Influenced ...
War with the Cleveland Mafia. 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 ...
Raymond W. Ferritto (April 8, 1929 - May 10, 2004) was an American mobster from Erie, Pennsylvania. He served as an associate and hitman for the Cleveland and Los Angeles crime families. Ferritto is best known for assassinating rival mobster Danny Greene in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977 in order to prevent Greene from overthrowing the Cleveland ...
Ricky Jackson (born 1957), Ronnie Bridgeman (born 1957) and Wiley Bridgeman (1954-June 27, 2021) are African Americans who were wrongfully convicted of murder as young men in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 and sentenced to death. [1] Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1977. They were imprisoned for decades before each of the three ...
The murder of Krista Lea Harrison occurred on July 17, 1982, in Marshallville, Ohio, United States. [1] The case remained unsolved for two years, until Robert Anthony Buell was convicted of her murder in 1984. [2] In 2000, Harrison's case appeared on the fifth season of the American television show Forensic Files in an episode titled "Material ...
Highland Memorial Park, New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, U.S. Amy Renee Mihaljevic (/ mʌhɑːˈlɛvɪk /, MUH-hah-LEVIK; December 11, 1978 – c. October 27, 1989) was a ten-year-old American elementary school student who was kidnapped and murdered in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1989. Her murder case received national attention.
Prior to 1850, the preservation of the peace was left to an elected city marshal who was assisted by a number of constables and night watchmen. [7] Concerns over the adequacy of this arrangement had led, in 1837, to the formation of the Cleveland Grays, a private military company, for the partial stated purpose of assisting local law enforcement when and if the need arose. [8]