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Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Thanks for the info Motorfab.
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Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Salvatore "Sam" Vassallo was born in Terrasini on Sept 3, 1897/98 and arrived in 1903. He died Jan 30, 1959. Salvatore Andrea Vassallo of Monterey, CA, was born Sep 13, 1897 in Malta according to his tombstone, but Palermo according to his draft registration card. His 1940 census says he was born in Italy. He died in Monterey County on Jun 22, 1982.
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Nick Guastella lived in Monterey so that makes it more likely Vassallo was related to Guastella's wife. Guastella was from Capaci, just a short distance along the northern Palermo coast from Terrasini. The Terrasini background also lends itself to the earlier presence in Detroit area with Bonventre. Great work.Antiliar wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 10:37 pm Salvatore "Sam" Vassallo was born in Terrasini on Sept 3, 1897/98 and arrived in 1903. He died Jan 30, 1959. Salvatore Andrea Vassallo of Monterey, CA, was born Sep 13, 1897 in Malta according to his tombstone, but Palermo according to his draft registration card. His 1940 census says he was born in Italy. He died in Monterey County on Jun 22, 1982.
Edit: Guastello's wife Carmela Vassallo was born in Tommaso Natale, Palermo.
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Biagio Bonventre was born in San Vito in 1893. His name appears in the index, but the original record has been lost to history...
As for Sal Vassallo, he was born in Sicily. Forgot where, but I have his birth record somewhere. I can look it up if somebody is interested. I tried to connect him and Guastella’s wife, but could not find any connection to the late 1700s...
As for Sal Vassallo, he was born in Sicily. Forgot where, but I have his birth record somewhere. I can look it up if somebody is interested. I tried to connect him and Guastella’s wife, but could not find any connection to the late 1700s...
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
There is no birth index for 1893, just a supplement of only a few pages of records. The rest is missing. But there are Catholic church records, and here is his baptismal record:lennert wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:35 am Biagio Bonventre was born in San Vito in 1893. His name appears in the index, but the original record has been lost to history...
As for Sal Vassallo, he was born in Sicily. Forgot where, but I have his birth record somewhere. I can look it up if somebody is interested. I tried to connect him and Guastella’s wife, but could not find any connection to the late 1700s...
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Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
The birth index for San Vito is covered in the ten year indexes for Monte San Giuliano...
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And of course, good work on the baptismal record!
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Great work, guys. So it seems his parents moved from Monte San Giuliano to San Vito sometime between the mid-1880s and early 1890s. If it's true his mother was Alcamese, then they had ties throughout the area.
This was shared in the Girolamo Asaro thread, but of the members said to be part of the local Castellammarese group in the 1896 case, two either lived in or had ties to Monte San Giuliano:
Giuseppe Bonanno (45, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Antonino Tagliaria (32, son of Agostino, Monte San Giuliano / Trapani resident)
Vito Castiglione (30, son of Angelo, Monte San Giuliano / Custonaci resident)
Pietro Rondello (35, son of Francesco, CDG resident)
Martino Buccellato (21, son of Giovanni, CDG resident)
Giovanni Buccellato (55, son of Felice, CDG resident)
Salvatore Buccellato (52, son of Felice, CDG resident)
Vincenzo Giallo (30, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Vito Giallo (37, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Vincenzo Milano (50, son of Sebastiano, CDG resident)
+ the Ingaglia father / son and Girolamo Asaro, all of which were from CDG.
This was shared in the Girolamo Asaro thread, but of the members said to be part of the local Castellammarese group in the 1896 case, two either lived in or had ties to Monte San Giuliano:
Giuseppe Bonanno (45, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Antonino Tagliaria (32, son of Agostino, Monte San Giuliano / Trapani resident)
Vito Castiglione (30, son of Angelo, Monte San Giuliano / Custonaci resident)
Pietro Rondello (35, son of Francesco, CDG resident)
Martino Buccellato (21, son of Giovanni, CDG resident)
Giovanni Buccellato (55, son of Felice, CDG resident)
Salvatore Buccellato (52, son of Felice, CDG resident)
Vincenzo Giallo (30, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Vito Giallo (37, son of Giuseppe, CDG resident)
Vincenzo Milano (50, son of Sebastiano, CDG resident)
+ the Ingaglia father / son and Girolamo Asaro, all of which were from CDG.
Very interesting they both ended up in Monterey with ties to the San Jose family if there is no relation. Just shows you can't always assume a connection even when the signs are there. Antiliar said Salvatore Vassallo was from Terrasini, while it looks like Guastella's wife was from Tommaso Natale in Palermo. Not geographically far but still distinct places.lennert wrote: ↑Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:35 am Biagio Bonventre was born in San Vito in 1893. His name appears in the index, but the original record has been lost to history...
As for Sal Vassallo, he was born in Sicily. Forgot where, but I have his birth record somewhere. I can look it up if somebody is interested. I tried to connect him and Guastella’s wife, but could not find any connection to the late 1700s...
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
B., Antiliar meant the Salvatore Vassallo from Detroit who was born in Terrasini... I meant Salvatore Andrea Vassallo, the guy from Monterey, California. I checked, and like Guastella’s wife, he was from Tomasso Natale. But going back to the late 1700s, early 1800s, there’s no common ancestor... Some interesting surnames in Salvatore Andrea Vassallo’s lineage, by the way: Riccobono, Scalici, LoCicero...
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
Found another interesting angle that connects to Bonventre and Detroit.
The Cusenzas of Flint
- Bonventre's mother had the maiden surname Cusenza and Bonventre lived in Flint, Michigan, before moving to San Diego. As referenced in the 1939 newspaper report of Bonventre's Michigan arrest, one of the men he associated with was Sam Ricca of Flint.
- San Jose capodecina Joseph Cusenza previously lived in Flint, Michigan, where he was a Detroit member. San Jose member informant Pete Misuraca identified brothers Joe, Paul, and Tony Cusenza as made members who lived in Flint when Misuraca lived in Detroit during the 1920s and 1930s. He mentioned them in connection with Sam Ricca, who he identified as another made member living in Flint at the time. He says all of these men were involved in the 1919 murder of his brother Sam Misuraca.
- Peter Misuraca stated that Joe's brother Tony Cusenza was "high up" in the organization and "in charge of the group" (capodecina?) at the time of his brother Sam's murder. Due to some kind of unspecified mistake during the murder of Sam Misuraca, he says Tony Cusenza was murdered approximately one year later while eating dinner at home.
- Peter Misuraca is off on his timeline, as Tony Cusenza was not murdered one year after the Sam Misuraca murder, but nearly a decade later in 1928. Cusenza was also not at his own home, but seated at a table (so maybe eating dinner) in the basement of Albert Guerazzi's home in Saginaw when Cusenza was shot through the window.
- A 1919 newspaper article backs up Misaraca's statement that the Cusenza group was involved in his brother Sam's murder. The article states that both Tony Cusenza and the Misuraca brothers allegedly participated in the murder of businessman W. Park Warner, then it was believed a "quarrel" over money between the murderers resulted in Sam Misuraca's murder less than two months later. Tony Cusenza and Vito "Lacarama" were arrested for the double murder of Sam Misuraca and Filippo "Angella".
- The article about the Misuraca / "Angella" murder also states that two of the surviving Misuraca brothers and a business partner of Sam Misuraca were being held for the Warner murder. This would be John and Art Misuraca I'm sure, though curious about the unnamed business partner. At this time Tony's brother Paul Cusenza was also on trial for the murder of Asa Putnam two years previous.
- An article about Tony Cusenza's 1928 murder states that he was a former "Detroit feudist" and president of an Italian mutual benefit association for San Vito Lo Capo compaesani. It also states he had participated in the "Vitale-Giannola wholesale fruit war" ten years previous.
- Cusenza's role as president in the San Vito compaesani association would lend itself to Peter Misuraca's statement that Cusenza was a leader of some kind. The article on his murder states that Cusenza had moved from Flint to Saginaw to recruit members for the San Vito association.
- Misuraca said Paul Cusenza died of natural causes, which is confirmed by his 1942 death in Detroit.
More California Connections
- Former Detroit member and later San Jose capodecina Joe Cusenza's son Leonardo lived in the California Bay Area like his father and was also a member of the San Jose family. With the Cusenzas allegedly killing Sam Misuraca in 1919, it appears all had been forgiven by later decades given that the Cusenzas and Misuracas were all involved together in San Jose. Peter Misuraca says Joe Cusenza died in a car accident. I can confirm he died in 1961, prior to Misuraca's statement, but can't confirm the accident.
- Frank Bompensiero reported that a Girolamo "Jimmy" Cusenza and his nephew Leonardo Cusenza moved to San Diego from Detroit, though he believed neither man was a made member they were connected to Detroit mafia figures. This is a different Leonardo from Joe's son in San Jose, as that was the Cusenzas' father's name and they all had sons named Leonardo. This would be Tony or Paul's son most likely.
- Joe Cusenza and Sam Ricca both being Detroit members in Flint in the 1920s/30s and associating together lends itself to the 1939 article connecting a Sam Vassallo to Ricca in Flint. Both Cusenza and San Jose member Salvatore Vassallo lived in Monterey, so it seems like too much of a coincidence that Cusenza's friend Ricca would be connected to a Sam Vassallo of the same age in Flint and then Cusenza would be near one in Monterey after leaving Flint. Sounds like Lennert believes they are separate men, though?
San Vito Lo Capo / Monte San Giuliano
- Both Paul and Joseph Cusenza came to the US from San Vito Lo Capo. Joseph's wife was a Vultaggio, a name found in Castellammare that connects to the early Bonanno family, and they married in Sicily.
- Though brother Antonino "Tony" Cusenza was head of the San Vito Lo Capo society in Michigan, he came to the US from Monte San Giuliano. So like the Bonventre brothers, we see the Cusenzas came from both San Vito and Monte San Giuliano but identified in Michigan as compaesani from San Vito.
- Girolamo Cusenza (b. 1904) of Detroit and San Diego appears to be a younger brother of the other Cusenzas. He listed his hometown as both San Vito Lo Capo and Monte San Giuliano on two separate naturalization records in Detroit. Birth date and other details confirm it is the same man on both records, adding weight to Tony coming from Monte San Giuliano while Paul and Joe coming from San Vito. Both the Bonventres and Cusenzas appear to have alternated between both towns.
- Girolamo Cusenza's mother was also a Vultaggio, so it appears his brother Joseph Cusenza married a maternal cousin.
Back to Bonventre
- Based on his mother's surname of Cusenza, his residence in Flint, his connection to Sam Ricca in the 1930s, and his ties to both San Vito and Monte San Giuliano, Biaggio Bonventre must have been associated with the Cusenza faction of the Flint/Detroit underworld when he lived there.
- That Girolamo Cusenza and his nephew would move to San Diego, where Biaggio Bonventre lived, adds to the likelihood of the Cusenzas being Bonventre's maternal relatives given that both families were from the same Sicilian towns, lived in the same Michigan town, then moved to California, with some ending up in San Diego like Bonventre.
- The involvement of the Cusenza faction in the murders of W. Park Warner, Asa Putnam, and Sam Misuraca / Filippo "Angella", plus Tony's alleged participation in the Vitale-Giannola war, among other Michigan mafia violence, may have given Biaggio Bonventre ample opportunity to earn the reputation as a killer he had by the time of Jimmy Fratianno's 1940s arrival to LA. Impossible to speculate unless he was linked by investigators to any Michigan murders, but given his reputation and strong ties to the violent Cusenza group, it is easy to believe he participated in Detroit area murders prior to moving to California.
- The membership of all three Cusenza brothers and Sam Ricca in the Detroit family could also suggest Bonventre was himself made in Detroit prior to transferring to Los Angeles. He would have been close to 50 by the time he moved, which was an old age to be made in that era.
Misc. Detroit/Misuraca info:
- Peter Misuraca said his brother John, the Newark/Profaci member, married a Ventimiglia in Detroit, whose father and uncles were made members in Detroit. John Misuraca would stay with the Ventimiglia relatives when he visited Detroit. It appears the Ventimiglias of Detroit were from Terrasini, so makes sense these older ones were members.
- Peter Misuraca said Joe Zerilli took over as boss of Detroit in the 1930s from a man who had died of ulcers. Peter Misuraca's parents had arranged for him to marry a woman in Detroit, but the arrangement was cancelled so that she could marry the boss of the Detroit family. She says after he died she remained a wealthy single widow. Misuraca only met her a couple of times given it was an arranged marriage and couldn't remember her name.
- The above wouldn't be Cesare LeMare or Sam Catalanotte would it? They were both murdered and didn't die of "ulcers", plus they were old enough that they should have already been married, but given Peter Misuraca badly mixed up the details on Tony Cusenza's murder in relation to his brother Sam's murder, it wouldn't be surprising if he got some other details wrong. Misuraca also wasn't a member yet, so maybe it wasn't "the boss" but another high-ranking figure. Maybe there are marriage records for a prominent Detroit leader during this time that could point us in the right direction.
- Misuraca never says whether or not his own father was a mafia member. Given that all four sons would become mafia members, the fact that the elder Misuraca arranged a marriage between Peter and a woman who would instead marry a Detroit mafia leader, plus John Misuraca's presumably arranged marriage to a Detroit mafia member's daughter, it seems like the elder Misuraca was very mafia-friendly if not a member.
- Going back to Misuraca's statement that Tony Cusenza was "in charge of the group", I wonder if this lends itself to my colony families theory. Cusenza was allegedly a prominent mafioso with a number of made members under him and he was president of the San Vito society in the area. Given Toledo may have had its own colony family that was absorbed into Detroit, I wonder if Flint and Saginaw had their own small family primarily of men from San Vito and surrounding areas that was also absorbed into Detroit?
EDIT: Can anyone confirm the true names of Tony Cusenza's alleged co-conspirator in the Sam Misuraca murder, Vito "Lacarama", as well as the other victim, Filippo "Angella"?
The Cusenzas of Flint
- Bonventre's mother had the maiden surname Cusenza and Bonventre lived in Flint, Michigan, before moving to San Diego. As referenced in the 1939 newspaper report of Bonventre's Michigan arrest, one of the men he associated with was Sam Ricca of Flint.
- San Jose capodecina Joseph Cusenza previously lived in Flint, Michigan, where he was a Detroit member. San Jose member informant Pete Misuraca identified brothers Joe, Paul, and Tony Cusenza as made members who lived in Flint when Misuraca lived in Detroit during the 1920s and 1930s. He mentioned them in connection with Sam Ricca, who he identified as another made member living in Flint at the time. He says all of these men were involved in the 1919 murder of his brother Sam Misuraca.
- Peter Misuraca stated that Joe's brother Tony Cusenza was "high up" in the organization and "in charge of the group" (capodecina?) at the time of his brother Sam's murder. Due to some kind of unspecified mistake during the murder of Sam Misuraca, he says Tony Cusenza was murdered approximately one year later while eating dinner at home.
- Peter Misuraca is off on his timeline, as Tony Cusenza was not murdered one year after the Sam Misuraca murder, but nearly a decade later in 1928. Cusenza was also not at his own home, but seated at a table (so maybe eating dinner) in the basement of Albert Guerazzi's home in Saginaw when Cusenza was shot through the window.
- A 1919 newspaper article backs up Misaraca's statement that the Cusenza group was involved in his brother Sam's murder. The article states that both Tony Cusenza and the Misuraca brothers allegedly participated in the murder of businessman W. Park Warner, then it was believed a "quarrel" over money between the murderers resulted in Sam Misuraca's murder less than two months later. Tony Cusenza and Vito "Lacarama" were arrested for the double murder of Sam Misuraca and Filippo "Angella".
- The article about the Misuraca / "Angella" murder also states that two of the surviving Misuraca brothers and a business partner of Sam Misuraca were being held for the Warner murder. This would be John and Art Misuraca I'm sure, though curious about the unnamed business partner. At this time Tony's brother Paul Cusenza was also on trial for the murder of Asa Putnam two years previous.
- An article about Tony Cusenza's 1928 murder states that he was a former "Detroit feudist" and president of an Italian mutual benefit association for San Vito Lo Capo compaesani. It also states he had participated in the "Vitale-Giannola wholesale fruit war" ten years previous.
- Cusenza's role as president in the San Vito compaesani association would lend itself to Peter Misuraca's statement that Cusenza was a leader of some kind. The article on his murder states that Cusenza had moved from Flint to Saginaw to recruit members for the San Vito association.
- Misuraca said Paul Cusenza died of natural causes, which is confirmed by his 1942 death in Detroit.
More California Connections
- Former Detroit member and later San Jose capodecina Joe Cusenza's son Leonardo lived in the California Bay Area like his father and was also a member of the San Jose family. With the Cusenzas allegedly killing Sam Misuraca in 1919, it appears all had been forgiven by later decades given that the Cusenzas and Misuracas were all involved together in San Jose. Peter Misuraca says Joe Cusenza died in a car accident. I can confirm he died in 1961, prior to Misuraca's statement, but can't confirm the accident.
- Frank Bompensiero reported that a Girolamo "Jimmy" Cusenza and his nephew Leonardo Cusenza moved to San Diego from Detroit, though he believed neither man was a made member they were connected to Detroit mafia figures. This is a different Leonardo from Joe's son in San Jose, as that was the Cusenzas' father's name and they all had sons named Leonardo. This would be Tony or Paul's son most likely.
- Joe Cusenza and Sam Ricca both being Detroit members in Flint in the 1920s/30s and associating together lends itself to the 1939 article connecting a Sam Vassallo to Ricca in Flint. Both Cusenza and San Jose member Salvatore Vassallo lived in Monterey, so it seems like too much of a coincidence that Cusenza's friend Ricca would be connected to a Sam Vassallo of the same age in Flint and then Cusenza would be near one in Monterey after leaving Flint. Sounds like Lennert believes they are separate men, though?
San Vito Lo Capo / Monte San Giuliano
- Both Paul and Joseph Cusenza came to the US from San Vito Lo Capo. Joseph's wife was a Vultaggio, a name found in Castellammare that connects to the early Bonanno family, and they married in Sicily.
- Though brother Antonino "Tony" Cusenza was head of the San Vito Lo Capo society in Michigan, he came to the US from Monte San Giuliano. So like the Bonventre brothers, we see the Cusenzas came from both San Vito and Monte San Giuliano but identified in Michigan as compaesani from San Vito.
- Girolamo Cusenza (b. 1904) of Detroit and San Diego appears to be a younger brother of the other Cusenzas. He listed his hometown as both San Vito Lo Capo and Monte San Giuliano on two separate naturalization records in Detroit. Birth date and other details confirm it is the same man on both records, adding weight to Tony coming from Monte San Giuliano while Paul and Joe coming from San Vito. Both the Bonventres and Cusenzas appear to have alternated between both towns.
- Girolamo Cusenza's mother was also a Vultaggio, so it appears his brother Joseph Cusenza married a maternal cousin.
Back to Bonventre
- Based on his mother's surname of Cusenza, his residence in Flint, his connection to Sam Ricca in the 1930s, and his ties to both San Vito and Monte San Giuliano, Biaggio Bonventre must have been associated with the Cusenza faction of the Flint/Detroit underworld when he lived there.
- That Girolamo Cusenza and his nephew would move to San Diego, where Biaggio Bonventre lived, adds to the likelihood of the Cusenzas being Bonventre's maternal relatives given that both families were from the same Sicilian towns, lived in the same Michigan town, then moved to California, with some ending up in San Diego like Bonventre.
- The involvement of the Cusenza faction in the murders of W. Park Warner, Asa Putnam, and Sam Misuraca / Filippo "Angella", plus Tony's alleged participation in the Vitale-Giannola war, among other Michigan mafia violence, may have given Biaggio Bonventre ample opportunity to earn the reputation as a killer he had by the time of Jimmy Fratianno's 1940s arrival to LA. Impossible to speculate unless he was linked by investigators to any Michigan murders, but given his reputation and strong ties to the violent Cusenza group, it is easy to believe he participated in Detroit area murders prior to moving to California.
- The membership of all three Cusenza brothers and Sam Ricca in the Detroit family could also suggest Bonventre was himself made in Detroit prior to transferring to Los Angeles. He would have been close to 50 by the time he moved, which was an old age to be made in that era.
Misc. Detroit/Misuraca info:
- Peter Misuraca said his brother John, the Newark/Profaci member, married a Ventimiglia in Detroit, whose father and uncles were made members in Detroit. John Misuraca would stay with the Ventimiglia relatives when he visited Detroit. It appears the Ventimiglias of Detroit were from Terrasini, so makes sense these older ones were members.
- Peter Misuraca said Joe Zerilli took over as boss of Detroit in the 1930s from a man who had died of ulcers. Peter Misuraca's parents had arranged for him to marry a woman in Detroit, but the arrangement was cancelled so that she could marry the boss of the Detroit family. She says after he died she remained a wealthy single widow. Misuraca only met her a couple of times given it was an arranged marriage and couldn't remember her name.
- The above wouldn't be Cesare LeMare or Sam Catalanotte would it? They were both murdered and didn't die of "ulcers", plus they were old enough that they should have already been married, but given Peter Misuraca badly mixed up the details on Tony Cusenza's murder in relation to his brother Sam's murder, it wouldn't be surprising if he got some other details wrong. Misuraca also wasn't a member yet, so maybe it wasn't "the boss" but another high-ranking figure. Maybe there are marriage records for a prominent Detroit leader during this time that could point us in the right direction.
- Misuraca never says whether or not his own father was a mafia member. Given that all four sons would become mafia members, the fact that the elder Misuraca arranged a marriage between Peter and a woman who would instead marry a Detroit mafia leader, plus John Misuraca's presumably arranged marriage to a Detroit mafia member's daughter, it seems like the elder Misuraca was very mafia-friendly if not a member.
- Going back to Misuraca's statement that Tony Cusenza was "in charge of the group", I wonder if this lends itself to my colony families theory. Cusenza was allegedly a prominent mafioso with a number of made members under him and he was president of the San Vito society in the area. Given Toledo may have had its own colony family that was absorbed into Detroit, I wonder if Flint and Saginaw had their own small family primarily of men from San Vito and surrounding areas that was also absorbed into Detroit?
EDIT: Can anyone confirm the true names of Tony Cusenza's alleged co-conspirator in the Sam Misuraca murder, Vito "Lacarama", as well as the other victim, Filippo "Angella"?
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
According to his death certificate his name was Filippo Augeli
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Sure looks like it -- thank you.
The latter is unsurprisingly from Monte San Giuliano. Can you make out what Augeli's parents' hometown says? Almost looks like Marsala but I don't think so.
The latter is unsurprisingly from Monte San Giuliano. Can you make out what Augeli's parents' hometown says? Almost looks like Marsala but I don't think so.
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
B., great stuff as always! As for the Vassallos, I never looked into the fellow arrested in Detroit, but if Antiliar says he was from Terrassini, and I trust his research blindly, he was indeed a different person than the Monterey Vassallo, as he was from Palermo, born to Francesco and Pietrina LoCicero. Also, according to his FBI file, Vassallo lived in NY untill 1933, and then went to California. He was close to Bonanno, which might explain his friendship with Guastella, as well as them both ending up in Monterey. According to the FBI, Vassallo (the Monterey guy) was never arrested.
As for the Cusenzas (Joe indeed died in a car crash near Ceres, CA) and Misuracas, the were even related through marriage, via the Giammona family. The patriarch of the Giammonas, Ciro, was said to have been a leading figure in (according to FBI records) in St. Louis, before ending up in California. I can’t remember exactly, but I seem to remember Sam Misuraca’s death was accidental... Would need to look up the details to be sure though...
As for the two Misuraca brothers held in Detroit in the Warner case, it were John and Joe. Joe ended up in Northern California also...
As for the Cusenzas (Joe indeed died in a car crash near Ceres, CA) and Misuracas, the were even related through marriage, via the Giammona family. The patriarch of the Giammonas, Ciro, was said to have been a leading figure in (according to FBI records) in St. Louis, before ending up in California. I can’t remember exactly, but I seem to remember Sam Misuraca’s death was accidental... Would need to look up the details to be sure though...
As for the two Misuraca brothers held in Detroit in the Warner case, it were John and Joe. Joe ended up in Northern California also...
Re: Biaggio Bonventre (Los Angeles / San Diego soldier)
By the way, arrested with Joe and John Misuraca in the warner case were Frank Feleccia and one Frank “Forniore.”
Another of the Misuraca brothers, Tony, was among those linked to the 1917 Rogers slaying, a case later linked to the “Good Killers.”
Another of the Misuraca brothers, Tony, was among those linked to the 1917 Rogers slaying, a case later linked to the “Good Killers.”