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http://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.c ... el/Murders
https://gangsterreport.com/mafia-hit-li ... -suicides/
https://nypost.com/2012/03/09/guilty-co ... s-suicide/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Scarpelli
https://www.stylo24.it/la-storia-della- ... no-cutolo/
* Francesco Barbagallo - Storia della Camorra page 92

July 12, 1912 - Gennaro De Marinis aka the cowherd get 30 y in the Cuocolo trial (the first big trial against the camorra) he cut his throat with a piece of glass.*

1934 Charles Colletti [Cleveland]

March 19, 1943 - Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti – Al Capone’s first cousin and direct successor as mafia boss of Chicago, Nitti ended his own decade-long reign on March 19, 1943, by shooting himself in the head while drunk, walking in railway yard, under indictment and facing a stiff prison bit for extorting Hollywood movie studios. Nitti, the brains behind Scarface Capone’s brawn, was well-known to be claustrophobic, fearing the prospect of prison and some suspected he was terminally ill with cancer when he killed himself.

Aprile 10,1947 Facing five to ten years in Sing Sing, Joseph (Pip the Blind) Gagliano a Lucchese made man, head of an East Harlem narcotic peddling combine said to be one of the biggest in the East, committed suicide by hanging early yesterday in the Bronx County Jail.

1956 Angelo Acquisto [Buffalo]

1956 June 18, 1956 - Girolamo (Momo) Adamo – The longtime underboss of the L.A. mafia, Adamo shot his wife and then himself on June 18, 1956, after he was passed over for the syndicate’s boss’ chair following California don Jack Dragna dying of a heart attack and allegedly was forced to watch Frank DeSimone, the man who would go on to replace Dragna as the city’s Godfather, rape his wife in front of him.

1967 Salvatore Badalamenti [Colombo]

1975 Joseph Riccobono [Gambino]

1976 Frank LoGalbo [Chicago / Milwaukee]

July 30, 1981 Carlo Licata – The son of L.A. mob boss Nick Licata and son-in-law of Detroit mob don William (Black Bill) Tocco, Licata was discovered dead inside his Michigan home, shot twice in the chest on July 30, 1981, the six-year anniversary of the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance and murder. Licata’s house, located in the posh Metro Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, is suspected by the FBI as a possible location that Hoffa was taken to and executed – he was last seen in a restaurant parking lot less than five minutes away. Investigators raised their eyebrows at the fact that the gun he used was found more than 10 feet away from the body, resting neatly on a dresser, and the suspicious date it occurred on. Licata was having business problems and was reportedly on the outs with his brother-in-laws, then-Detroit mob don, Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco and Motor City caporegime Anthony (Tony T) Tocco, at the time of his death.

1st or November 23, 1981 - Salvatore Serra aka bullet, boss of Pagani and enemy of Cutolo, hanged himself in the prison of ascoli piceno because he knew that once arrived in that prison ruled by the NCO of Cutolo that would be his end and Pasquale Barra, the prison executioner, reported in a deposition:
«He killed himself in prison, because he knew that arriving in Ascoli Piceno, he had arrived at the terminus. He had no escape. Besides, if he hadn't hanged himself, I would have killed him with my own hands. "

9 May 1983 - Anthony Augello Colombo soldier commits suicide, he had been arrested with Alphonse Persico,the son of the boss Carmine, for heroin trafficking.

March 11, 1985: Salvatore Imperatrice dies in intensive care after having hanged himself with a string of rope tied to a cell bar at the age of 27. Imperatrice, a famous famous of the NCO, had accused Cutolo and even Enzo Tortora, at the time a famous TV presenter to be a camorrista and having trafficked drug (Tortora will be acquitted of all charges)in the last times Imperatrice had tried at least a dozen times to suicide.

May 2, 1989 - Gerald Scarpelli was a hitman for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization who later became a government witness.On July 31, 1988, Scarpelli was arrested by federal agents for a robbery in Michigan City, Indiana. After being confronted with wiretap conversations from James "Duke" Basile, a Scapelli crew member, discussing assassination methods, Scarpelli agreed to become an informant. Scarpelli eventually admitted his involvement in the 1980 Dauber murders as well as the murders of mob chauffeur Gerald Carusiello and chop shop owner Timothy O'Brien.

On May 2, 1989, two days before a court ruling on his robbery charges, Gerald Scarpelli died after hanging himself in a shower stall at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Scarpelli allegedly killed himself because a judge had recently ruled against him regarding the Basile tapes.

May 21, 1999 - Giovanni & Pietro Ligammari – The Bonanno drug lieutenant and his son were found hanging side-by-side inside their New Jersey home on May 21, 1999. Giovanni, 60, was convicted in the legendary Pizza Connection Case. Pietro, 37, was a civilian without a criminal record. Mental health experts questioned the miniscule likelihood of a father and son committing a planned double suicide. The elder Ligammari was just one of a string of untimely demises of mobsters tied to the fallout from Pizza Connection bust, most of them connected to the treacherous Bonanno Family.

November 16, 2000 - Steve Raffa – The Tampa mafia’s capo in Miami, overseeing South Florida for all of the 1980s and 1990s on behalf of the Trafficante Family, Raffa hung himself inside his Pembrooke Pines home on November 16, 2000, less than a month removed from being pinched in a large-scale racketeering indictment. Raffa was reportedly severely depressed in the wake of his arrest, however, there are family members of his that remain weary of a firm designation of suicide regarding his death.

February 26, 2012 - Nicholas “Nicky Skins” Stefanelli a Gambino family made man was found dead at the Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel in Rutherford, NJ — finished one more piece of murderous Mafia business before he went.
Two days earlier, Stefanelli shot and killed Joseph Rossi Sr., a Bloomfield, NJ, businessman he blamed for the 2010 drug arrest that forced him to become a turncoat, the sources said.Stefanelli wore a wire for 2 years so the feds won't incriminate his son Nicky jr.

March 15,2013 - Domenico Antonio Pagano a camorrista considerated one of the high ranking members of the secessionists clan that fought in the Scampia feud against DiLauro clan,was found hanged in his cell after 2 years in the 41 bis regime.
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Frank Cucchiara of the Patriarca Family committed suicide too
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Raven wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 4:38 am viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2159
And now? Gonna merge the with the other post?
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Vincenzo "Jimmy" Tripodi- Steubenville, OH Rackets Boss killed himself in December of 1987 just before Christmas after getting a terminal cancer diagnosis. Shot himself with a .38 out in his garage.
"I figure I’m gonna have to do about 6000 years before I get accepted into heaven. And 6000 years is nothing in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here."

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The one about the father and son:

"May 21, 1999 - Giovanni & Pietro Ligammari – The Bonanno drug lieutenant and his son were found hanging side-by-side inside their New Jersey home on May 21, 1999. Giovanni, 60, was convicted in the legendary Pizza Connection Case. Pietro, 37, was a civilian without a criminal record. Mental health experts questioned the miniscule likelihood of a father and son committing a planned double suicide. The elder Ligammari was just one of a string of untimely demises of mobsters tied to the fallout from Pizza Connection bust, most of them connected to the treacherous Bonanno Family. "

Is mind boggling.
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1964 Gambino member Andrew Alberti
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Columbo soldier tony augello
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Frankie Five Angels
"I figure I’m gonna have to do about 6000 years before I get accepted into heaven. And 6000 years is nothing in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here."

-Pauly Walnuts, RIP
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JCB1977 wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 7:45 pm Frankie Five Angels
"Look, the FB.I. guys offered me a deal. They said Michael Corleone did this, Michael Corleone did that and I said yeah sure, but it was all lies"
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Eugene Pontecorvo :lol:
"I figure I’m gonna have to do about 6000 years before I get accepted into heaven. And 6000 years is nothing in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here."

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JCB1977 wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 8:26 pm Eugene Pontecorvo :lol:
JCB1977 wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 7:45 pm Frankie Five Angels
You should do some stand up comedy JCB,maybe maybe you will become famous. :D
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Camorristi in the cage,Gennaro De Marinis is the number 5.

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Craig DePalma, son of Greg DePalma, hung himself in his jail cell after he testified in front of a grand jury. Died years later, never emerging from his coma.
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crazyjoegallo wrote: Wed May 29, 2019 1:45 am Image

Camorristi in the cage,Gennaro De Marinis is the number 5
Amazing pic. Anymore info? Year, location, those on trial, accused crimes, convicted etc etc?

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