Researching the Mafia

[maxiestern11]

There are 2 people that I’m curious to investigate but don’t know how to get inf on them. They are George Colleti (or Colletti) and James Cororella. They live on E.14 St., and E.13 St., in NYC off First Ave downtown. They were charged and acquitted in a homicide in Elizebeth NJ back in 1923 I believe. The murder victim being one Pietrino Caiozzo. He was shot 6 times....I believe this murder ties in with the larger Castellammrese conflict between the Buccellatto clan and the Magaddino/Bonanno clan for supremacy in America. It was a vendetta carried over from Sicily resulting in many killing both there and America. If any body specializes in early history I think this would open a wealth of additional information. This was not a singular isolated incident but rather tied into almost all early history/development of the later groups in USA that developed. The Good Killers, etc. I appreciate any help given. And victim surname has been spelled Carozzo, Caiozzo, Caizzo

[Antiliar]

Added a couple more links, including the suggestion from Mickey Meatballs.

[sick]

Very helpful, thank you.

[Antiliar]

Added links for FREE New York and Brooklyn city directories

[Antiliar]

There is a great site that I've used before that has FREE birth, death and marriage records for Sicily. The problem is my Malwarebytes program is telling me that it has a trojan. I don't know if this is true or a glitch, so try at your own risk. All records are in Italian.

Siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it
Storia archivistica: I registri di Stato civile sono conservati presso la sede ... e morte conservati presso l'archivio storico diocesano di Palermo (1820-1905)

[Antiliar]

Sicily Birth, Death and Marriage records 1820-1865:

http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it ... aurazione/

[antimafia]

Italian census records (select) online:

https://surnamesinitaly.com/genealogica ... php?page=1

- Go to the bottom of the page, where the table for page 1 ends.

- The 81 pages you can scroll through are alphabetically ordered by provincia (province).

- Once you find the province on a particular page, you then have to check column 2 to see whether there are census records available for a particular comune in the province.

- Then click on the corresponding hyperlink in column 3. (Doing so will get to the website that Antiliar linked to in the post above mine; his post specifically linked to a webpage for Palermo.)

- With Arezzo being the very first province listed--it is in Tuscany--right off the bat you realize that there are no census records for Agrigento available on this site. Of the other remaining Sicilian provinces, only Catania (pp. 21–23) and Palermo (52–54) are represented here.

[JoeTheBoss]

Somewhere out there there is a chicago crimes commission timeline of organized crime murders in chicago. it's super detailed and for the life of me i cannot find the damn thing but would def. make a great addition to the list

[Antiliar]

Somewhere out there there is a chicago crimes commission timeline of organized crime murders in chicago. it's super detailed and for the life of me i cannot find the damn thing but would def. make a great addition to the list

I think you're talking about this:
https://ahistoryofviolenceinchicago.blo ... o-mob.html

[bert]

Aside from Maryfarrell, are there other sites with released files on them?

[maxiestern11]

MF for me has been the best. But also just googling you might pull up Scarpa’s files(very extensive) .... other than that FOIA although often very redacted is very good too

[Antiliar]

Aside from Maryfarrell, are there other sites with released files on them?

Go to the first page of this thread and look under "crime related."

[JCB1977]

Aside from Maryfarrell, are there other sites with released files on them?

Go to the FBI website and click on a link that says "The Vault"

[bert]

Thanks, the John Jay one looks good too.

[aleksandrored]

Is there anything special about the book Al Capone Biography of a Self-Made Man by Fred Pasley?