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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 .
Kansas, in the geographic center of the United States, has a rich history connected with the American Old West and with the American Civil War ("Bleeding Kansas"), including the history of the notorious guerrilla commander William Quantrill. The following is a partial chronological list of major motion pictures set in Kansas. [1] [2]
Nicholas Civella began his criminal career as a teenager in the Italian "North End" neighborhood of Kansas City. Civella's first arrest was at age 10, after which he dropped out of school. Before he reached age 20, Civella had been arrested for auto theft, illegal gambling, robbery, and vagrancy . In 1932, Civella spent two months in prison for ...
Gary Jenkins, an ex-Kansas City police detective, recently offered a grainy photograph of the restaurant on Independence and Prospect avenues. The old Villa Capri has since been razed, but his ...
Died. February 1984 (aged 57–58) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Other names. "Tiger". Anthony J. "Tiger" Cardarella (1926—1984) was a Kansas City, Missouri Cosa Nostra figure who was involved in large-scale fencing operations. Cardarella was the owner of Tiger's Records shop on Independence Avenue in Kansas City and Overland Park, Kansas.
The three men imposed a tax on all goods sold in the city's Italian community. In 1924, Vito Giannola became the most powerful Mafia boss in St. Louis forcing Dominick Giambrone to flee the city. [3] Giannola attempted to take control of the bootlegging rackets in the area and fought with members of the Egan's Rats gang and Cuckoos Gang. [3]
The Pittsburgh crime family, [ 4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[ 5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1][ 6] The LaRocca family is one of the original 26 Mafia families in the United States. [ 7] The boss and last known "made" member of the family, Thomas "Sonny ...
Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir and crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Coleen Gray. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Secret Four . Karlson and Payne teamed a year later for 99 River Street , another film noir, followed by Hell's Island , a film noir in color.