by Dwalin2014 » Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:16 pm
Stroccos wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:34 pm
Dwalin2014 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:38 pm
Borgia's story could be made in an action gangster/police movie imo. Really a "clever" idea: putting a bounty for every policeman killed...If he lived in the same time period as Toto' Riina, they would have become best friends probably.
That's what I said to be A good movie !! , if I recall it was 150 a pop that's 2400 in today's dollars .
Do you happen know How many did he have killed ? I would have to reread he articles . I do have the some of the newspaper articles, I can post them to the forum if anyone is interested
I am not sure 100%, apart from some articles the most detailed description I found was in the book "Wicked Akron", where it's said he had 4 killed (Guy Norris, Edward Costigan, Joseph Hunt, Gethin Richards), but was sentenced for 1 murder only (the Richards one), probably because it was the only one where he was present at the crime scene, so it was easier to prove, although the triggermen implicated him for the other 3 too. It also says after he was executed, another policeman were killed and 2 wounded, revenge maybe (since there wasn't anyone left to pay the bounty). Also, Borgia said he accepted a contract from an outsider to kill somebody, but it's all from the book, don't know if it's 100% verified:
https://books.google.it/books?id=fKcjCg ... ia&f=false
There was also a site with the list of people executed in Ohio and Akron specifically back then, with photos of each, there was the same photo of Borgia as in the book and several others from his group, the ones who went to the chair too. Don't know why, I can't find the link anymore; I remember just writing "Rosario Borgia" on google, and the link came up in the picture section among the first results. Now, it's not there. Maybe I still have their photos downloaded on my computer though, can post if I find them.
In some articles, I remember Rosario Borgia (sometimes spelled Borgio, don't know which one is correct) also used the name Russell Burg.
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Borgia's story could be made in an action gangster/police movie imo. Really a "clever" idea: putting a bounty for every policeman killed...If he lived in the same time period as Toto' Riina, they would have become best friends probably.
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That's what I said to be A good movie !! , if I recall it was 150 a pop that's 2400 in today's dollars .
Do you happen know How many did he have killed ? I would have to reread he articles . I do have the some of the newspaper articles, I can post them to the forum if anyone is interested
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I am not sure 100%, apart from some articles the most detailed description I found was in the book "Wicked Akron", where it's said he had 4 killed (Guy Norris, Edward Costigan, Joseph Hunt, Gethin Richards), but was sentenced for 1 murder only (the Richards one), probably because it was the only one where he was present at the crime scene, so it was easier to prove, although the triggermen implicated him for the other 3 too. It also says after he was executed, another policeman were killed and 2 wounded, revenge maybe (since there wasn't anyone left to pay the bounty). Also, Borgia said he accepted a contract from an outsider to kill somebody, but it's all from the book, don't know if it's 100% verified:
https://books.google.it/books?id=fKcjCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=wicked+akron&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_zdOz5rnWAhWPLVAKHWW-B6cQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=borgia&f=false
There was also a site with the list of people executed in Ohio and Akron specifically back then, with photos of each, there was the same photo of Borgia as in the book and several others from his group, the ones who went to the chair too. Don't know why, I can't find the link anymore; I remember just writing "Rosario Borgia" on google, and the link came up in the picture section among the first results. Now, it's not there. Maybe I still have their photos downloaded on my computer though, can post if I find them.
In some articles, I remember Rosario Borgia (sometimes spelled Borgio, don't know which one is correct) also used the name Russell Burg.