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Gibson was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw associated with Alvin Karpis and the Barker gang during the late 1920s and '30s. [2] [9] Helen Wawzynak Gillis: No image available: 1908–1987 Gillis was the wife of mobster Baby Face Nelson, and assisted with many of his crimes. Alongside her husband, she was labeled public enemy ...
Jack "Legs" Diamond was a major Irish-American bootlegger and mobster of the 1920s and 1930s. [5] There are various accounts as to how Diamond and "Kiki" Roberts met, but one was that she had befriended a lady named Agnes O. Laughlin, who was in turn friends with Diamond and introduced them.
St. Clair resisted the Mafia's interests for several years after Prohibition ended; she became a local legend for her public denunciations of corrupt police and for resisting Mafia control. [3] She ran a successful numbers game in Harlem and was an activist for the black community. Her nicknames included: Queenie, Madame Queen, Madame St. Clair ...
December 18 – New York Prohibition gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond is shot to death while staying at a safe house in Albany, New York by a number of unidentified gunman. December 22 – Irish-American mob boss Frankie Wallace, on the pretense of a sit-down with Italian-American mobsters, is ambushed and murdered in Boston's North End.
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures by region and by American Mafia ... (1916–1920) Giuseppe "Joe the ... (1928–1930) Frank ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American gangsters. It includes gangsters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American female gangsters"
June 2 - Early in the morning, as Chicago Heights gangster Girolamo "James" Lamberta is leaving the roadhouse of friend and fellow gangster, Philip Piazza, with two female friends in the Chicago suburb of Thornton, unknown assassins fire on the group with shotguns, instantly killing Lamberta and one of the women, while wounding the other woman ...
Jose Miguel Battle, Sr. (1930–2007), natural causes in prison Donovan "Bulbie" Bennett (1964–2005), killed by law enforcement Vivian Blake (1956–2010), natural causes