Mafia tidbits in non-mafia related books
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Re: Mafia tidbits in non-mafia related books
In the book Homicide: A Year in the Killing Streets by David Simon there's a quick anecdote how in May 1988 the Baltimore homicide detectives he was following worked a case where Tommy DelGiorno's shithead of a son and his buddy got in a fight with a guy outside a bar and his friend ended up shooting the guy dead. I guess they had the family in witness protection so close to Philly because the big RICO trial hadn't gone down yet and Tommy Del was really busy with all the court appearances at this time.
Re: Mafia tidbits in non-mafia related books
I don't remember the exact book, either Sudden Terror or Hunting a Psychopath, which came out before the GSK serial killer was finally caught, but one of those books says they had a suspect living in Bay Area California in the late 1970s who was connected to the "Banayo" mafia family from the East Coast, but he was later ruled out as a suspect.
The suspect had been reported as a suspect by his wife, I believe, but I'm wondering who it might have been. The book changes names so "Banayo" is definitely meant to be Bonanno. There were former Bonanno members/associates/relatives in the Bay Area, so seems someone connected to the Bonannos in California was the suspect. I assume it was a younger relative of an inactive member from the old Bonanno faction but hard to narrow it down without more info.
There is another mafia reference in one of those books, too, as one of the first rape victims was an Italian-American woman who had her father-in-law visiting from Italy. Supposedly the father-in-law was a "godfather" in Italy and asked LE to tell him the name of the rapist so he could have him killed himself. They use the name "Frank Rossali" as a pseudonym for the husband / son of the alleged "godfather". No clue who this might have been or if there was any truth to a mafia connection.
The suspect had been reported as a suspect by his wife, I believe, but I'm wondering who it might have been. The book changes names so "Banayo" is definitely meant to be Bonanno. There were former Bonanno members/associates/relatives in the Bay Area, so seems someone connected to the Bonannos in California was the suspect. I assume it was a younger relative of an inactive member from the old Bonanno faction but hard to narrow it down without more info.
There is another mafia reference in one of those books, too, as one of the first rape victims was an Italian-American woman who had her father-in-law visiting from Italy. Supposedly the father-in-law was a "godfather" in Italy and asked LE to tell him the name of the rapist so he could have him killed himself. They use the name "Frank Rossali" as a pseudonym for the husband / son of the alleged "godfather". No clue who this might have been or if there was any truth to a mafia connection.