THE BLACK HAND FORUM

According to this article Raymond Lundgren was killed by a Boston mobster Joe McDonald

https://www.vice.com/da/article/ppqnxg/ ... boston-mob

Joe Mac was in the Winter Hill gang along with Bulger, Flemmi, Martorano and Howie Winter.

I think that Spilotro murdered Rand with help from Bompensiero.

PolackTony wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:12 pm Not sure exactly what the deal was with Ariola; he was a massage parlor owner shot to death with a .22 in January of 1977, thought to be a victim of the mob muscling in to massage parlors in LA. He was born in 1951 in Lynwood, CA, and let his death record was named Michael Glinn Arriola.

Per this Time article, investigators believed that former NYC mob associate Joseph Ullo was responsible for both the Calderazzo and Ariola murders:

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/ ... 65,00.html

Thanks Tony. I forgot that Ullo was linked to the Calderazzo murder. Thanks for the reminder. The Ariola one I don't know anything about.

Not sure exactly what the deal was with Ariola; he was a massage parlor owner shot to death with a .22 in January of 1977, thought to be a victim of the mob muscling in to massage parlors in LA. He was born in 1951 in Lynwood, CA, and let his death record was named Michael Glinn Arriola.

Per this Time article, investigators believed that former NYC mob associate Joseph Ullo was responsible for both the Calderazzo and Ariola murders:

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/ ... 65,00.html

So I was going over the 1977 California Organized Crime Control Commission report, and on page fourteen they list twenty organized crime murders linked to California and I'm hoping some people can help me with some of them that I don't know anything about. They list ones from outside California that they link to California but there are a bunch in LA that I'm not familiar with. For those who don't have it here's the list:

Ohio(all pretty obvious):
Leo Moceri
John Nardi
Danny Greene

Indiana:
Ray Ryan(clearly a Chicago hit)

Florida:
John Roselli(pretty obvious)

Nevada:
John Dubeck(And I've always gone along with the idea that this was done by Spilotro for Milano or for other reasons)
Frances Dubeck

San Francisco:
Joe Barboza(obvious)

San Jose:
Pete Catelli(obvious)

San Diego(both obvious):
Frank Bompensiero
Tamara Rand

Here's where it gets interesting:

Los Angeles:
Jacob Molinas(Complicated but I get why it's listed)
I need help with understanding what all of these are:

Michael Ariola
Stephan Bovan
James Arakawa
Alan Wellman
Renate Wellman
Bernard Gussoff(Fratiano does claim that Rizzitello admitting doing this one so okay)
Vincent Calderazzo
Raymond Lundgren

So does anyone have info on those Los Angeles ones? Because none of them are ringing a bell for me.