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Re: Mobsters suicides

by Rocco » Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:42 am

West Coast1 wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:09 pm Maybe I was thinking of this but I swear the one I was thinking of happened after 2005

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/nyre ... oubts.html
Yeah the Ligammari father son suicide. I was always highly suspect of this being a suicide. They were linked to Raffa I believe . And the father also did time for the Pizza Connection case. All Sicilians like Raffa.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:01 pm

Berwyn Life 1954Nov17 Sam Virruso suicide.jpg

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:00 pm

Mobsters that suicided

1934  Charles Colletti [Cleveland]

1943  Frank Nitti  [Chicago]

1947  Joseph Gagliano [Lucchese]

1954 Salvatore Virruso [Chicago]

1956   Angelo Acquisto  [Buffalo]

1956  Girolamo Adamo  [Los Angeles]

1963 Joseph Costello (associate&informant) [Chicago]

1967  Salvatore Badalamenti [Colombo]

1976  Frank LoGalbo [Chicago / Milwaukee]

1976 Frank Cucchiara [Patriarca]

1981  Carlo Licata  [Detroit]

1983  Anthony Augello [Colombo]

1986 Frederick DiNome (associate&informant) [Gambino]

1987 Vincenzo "Jimmy" Tripodi [Pittsburgh]

1987 Ronald DeAngeles [Chicago]

1989  Gerald Scarpelli  [Chicago]

1999 Giovanni and Pietro Ligammari [Bonanno]

2000  Stephen Raffa  [Tampa]

2002 Craig De Palma [Gambino]

2010 Anthony "Todo" Anastasio [Gambino]

2012 Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli [Gambino]

Re: Mobsters suicides

by B. » Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:37 pm

Chicago member Frank LaGalbo killed himself. Bompensiero was told by Balistrieri during a Milwaukee visit that LaGalbo was sick and dying so that may have been the motivation.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by antimafia » Wed Feb 22, 2023 5:01 pm

In his report about the autopsy for Giuseppe De Vito, the Quebec coroner who led the examination indicated that De Vito probably died of cyanide poisoning. The report does not indicate whether De Vito intentionally and knowingly ingested cyanide.

The Sûreté du Québec (provincial police force) investigators looking into De Vito's death lean toward the theory that De Vito did not intentionally and knowingly ingest cyanide; that he was murdered instead. De Vito's lawyer at the time, as well as some sources and friends of De Vito's who spoke to Le Journal de Montréal at some point between the July 8, 2015 death and the cause-of-death bombshell articles published by the paper 4 months later in November of that year, do not think suicide was at play here.

In the 42 years preceding De Vito's death, there have been only 4 cases in Quebec prisons of inmates dying of cyanide poisoning. All 4 instances were suicides.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Wed Feb 22, 2023 9:48 am

Pogo The Clown wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:16 pm Anthony Anastasio had cancer and was under indictment for extortion. Girolamo Adamo shot his wife (who survived) and then himself after finding out she was sleeping with (raped by?) Boss Jack Dragna.


Pogo
Yes Pogo,raped by L.A. boss Frank DeSimone that forced Adamo to watch.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by Snakes » Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:23 pm

Waingro wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:11 pm
Snakes wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:06 pm Scarpelli had just recently flipped and apparently had second thoughts. Some postulate that he was "persuaded" to do it.

I want to say Frank Schweihs was in jail with him at the time but can't remember if that's correct.
Yes, Chicago MCC

Re: Mobsters suicides

by Waingro » Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:11 pm

Snakes wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:06 pm Scarpelli had just recently flipped and apparently had second thoughts. Some postulate that he was "persuaded" to do it.

I want to say Frank Schweihs was in jail with him at the time but can't remember if that's correct.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by Pogo The Clown » Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:16 pm

Anthony Anastasio had cancer and was under indictment for extortion. Girolamo Adamo shot his wife (who survived) and then himself after finding out she was sleeping with (raped by?) Boss Jack Dragna.


Pogo

Re: Mobsters suicides

by Snakes » Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:06 pm

Scarpelli had just recently flipped and apparently had second thoughts. Some postulate that he was "persuaded" to do it.

DeAngeles was terminally ill with cancer.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by aray22 » Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:40 pm

Are there any known reasons why a lot of these guys did it?

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:26 am

https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtop ... 63#p178906

Joseph Costello,was an informant that killed him in 1963,he was an Outfit associate,should be put in the list?

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:11 am

Uforeality wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:32 pm Eugene Pontecorvo, April 2006.
Jim “Johnny Cakes” Witowski this time for real! John Costelloe suicided in december 16 2008.

Re: Mobsters suicides

by CornerBoy » Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:57 am

read ed falco's prequel to godfather. it was endorsed by puzo before he died I THINK.

turns out luca brasi was half retard is because he tried to OD on opiates the night he killed his baby in a furnace as he slept next to dead goomada who gave birth to the recently murdered baby. apparently, he was astute and quick on his feet prior to this episode that made him look like he had a stroke. carry on gents

Re: Mobsters suicides

by furiofromnaples » Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:42 am

1934  Charles Colletti [Cleveland]
1943  Frank Nitti  [Chicago]
1947  Joseph Gagliano [Lucchese]
1956   Angelo Acquisto  [Buffalo]
1956  Girolamo Adamo  [Los Angeles]
1967  Salvatore Badalamenti [Colombo]
1975  Joseph Riccobono  [Gambino]
1976  Frank LoGalbo [Chicago / Milwaukee]
1976 Frank Cucchiara [Patriarca]
1981  Carlo Licata  [Detroit]
1983  Anthony Augello [Colombo]
1987 Vincenzo "Jimmy" Tripodi [Ohio ndrangheta]
1987 Ronald DeAngeles [Chicago]
1989  Gerald Scarpelli  [Chicago]
Giovanni and Pietro Ligammari [Bonanno]
2000  Stephen Raffa  [Tampa]
2002 Craig De Palma [Gambino]
2010 Anthony "Todo" Anastasio [Gambino]
2012 Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli [Gambino]

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