St. Louis Mob Murders List?
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St. Louis Mob Murders List?
I've been doing a little bit of research on the St. Louis mob. Primarily because I'm fascinated by the overlap/collaboration with the Detroit mob. But I wasn't sure if anyone ever put together a list of suspected St. Louis mob murders. I find it's really hard to research because everything seems to focus on the Leisure War of the late 70s-early 80s. That kind of drowns everything out. But I've come across a couple links to Detroit in terms of murders. In 1956 a lawyer named Robert L Brown was killed in what they called a gangland slaying in St. Louis, and Detroit police were looking for a "local hoodlum" in connection with that because they think Brown was the source of a Detroit cigarette smuggling ring. But I've never been able to find out if that's true and who the Detroiter was. And William Buffalino(Detroit Teamster lawyer and apparently eventually made member according to the FBI) was questioned about a St. Louis murder that took place in the 1950s. Either 1954 or 1956 but again I've never been sure what that was all about. So I wondered if anyone ever put together a list for St. Louis. It'd be interesting.
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September 12,1910 - St Louis Fruit Supply Company stockholder and Mafioso Giuseppe “Joseph†Cammarata stabbed to death by Antonio Sansone.
December 24,1910 -Damiano Capuano the boss of Biddle Street based Little Italy was shot to death and was shot to death Christmas eve December 1910 and was replaced by Gaetano Viviano.
January 19, 1912 Salvatore Leoni the star defense witness in the murder trial of Antonio Sansone was killed.Dominic Giambrone was a prime suspect in the beheading of Salvatore Leoni.
December 17,1916 Agostino Curella was killed in Cleveland by the Bonvissuto brothers.
February 14,1917 - Vicent Butera found hacked to death in his saloon at 901 Biddle Street. He had been warned by Giambrone to close his business.ù
July 31,1920 - Carmelo Bonvissuto shot and killed by Angelo Naccarato.
August 7,1920 - Tom Spicuzza was killed by the Russo brothers,black hand members.
September 1,1920 - Angelo Bonvissuto,the Carmelo's brother was killed as revenge for the 1916 murder of Agostino Curella in Cleveland.
October 12 1921 - Wash Street drive by shooting that killed Michael Adragnaand Joseph Giammanco.
July 23,1922 - St Louis Black hand leader Frank Sicola was shot and killed.
St Louis faction boss Carmelo Fresina,was suspected in the murder of his neighbor Joe Bucceri in 1922.
September 16 1923 - Angelo Pastori the cook of Garavelli'sCafè refused to pay the pizzo and the meat from Vito Giannola's company and was stabbed to death.
October 23,1923 - Paul Giambrone died after was severely wounded 2 days ago and his son Dominick escape from St Louis and the new boss became Vito Giannola.
March 3,1924 - Joe Buselaki was killed after he had run afoul with Giannola.
September 12,1924 the body of bootlegger Sam Palizzola (family member of Alphonse) get found in St Louis, his skull was beaten in after which they dragged his body after a car at the orders of Giannola.
May 21,1926 - Mariano De Luca was killed because he refuses to pay pizzo.
June 27,1926 the Giannola brothers murder bootlegger Harvey J Dunn after which the Irish gang "the Chuckoos" declare them war.
August 21,1926 the mafiosi try to kill their former supporter Pasquale Santino what goes wrong but they kill Joseph Schamora and wound a woman. Santino had changed sides to the Cuckoos because he wants to replace Giannola and he gets support from the Aiello brothers in Chicago.
September 6,1926 Cuckoo member Peter “Pete†Webbe get shot to death in his car by the Giannola faction.
September 22 1926 the Giannola faction also murder Joseph Consiglio in his car and he worked for Santino.
The Cuckoos shoot up 23 September the Submarine Bar and kill the owner Anthony dattalo (who died 26 September 1926) who they wanted but also the innocents Frank Christian and the reporter Joseph Rubino.
August 9,1927 - Anthony F Russo and Vincent Spicuzza get into an ambush and are shot to death in their car, both have a dime in their hand.One of the killers Alphonse Palazzolo left the dimes to put the blame on McGurn (the other killer would have been Frank Agrusa and they were accompanied by Impastato and Jack Licavoli), but he started to brag about the murders and William Russo heard it and started the Italian gang war.
August,24 1927 - Benny Giamanco a friend of Russo and Spicuzza got killed with the innocent Aloys Beelman.
September 9, 1927 -Alphonse Palazzolo,fate had come for Palazzolo in the form of four gun-wielding mystery men. An injured bystander, Emanuel Capraro, recalled what happened: “A man jumped out of the car and ran towards Palazzolo. The man had a pistol. Palazzolo stepped back, but the man shot at him.â€
November 10,1927 the mafiosi kill in St Louis Charles Palmisano because he didn't want to pay protection money after Palizzola was killed.
May 7, 1931 - Carmelo "Charlie" Fresina was found shot to death across the river near Edwardsville, Illinois.
1931 - Charles Sanfilippo
1932 - Giacomo Lonigro
May 1934 - Mike Palazzolo. In the months leading up to his murder, Palazzolo was feuding with mob associate Walter Mushenick and was last seen alive leaving his parents’ house with Vitale in Johnny V’s Cadillac. Palazzolo was found in a ditch hours later, shot in the head and neck, a crime Vitale would be charged with, but never convicted of.
July 9, 1934 -Dominick Giambrone - He was the boss of the Giambrone/Giordano crime family from 1912 to 1923. He then fled St. Louis. He returned to St. Louis April 1934 with his wife and three small children. Dominick was found murdered from a gunshot wound to the head on July 9, 1934 quarter mile west of Imperial, Missouri.
March 27, 1946 - Gaetano "Thomas" Buffa -It's believed that Buffa might have come to St. Louis in the 1920's when he took over leadership of the Pillow Gang. In the mid-1940s the Kansas City crime family choose Thomas Buffa and Tony Lopiparo to oversee that rackets in St. Louis. Buffa was murdered on March 27, 1946, in Lodi, California after testifying against the girlfriend of a Kansas City mobster.
August 26,1951 - Former acting boss Vito Cusumano shot and killed Joseph “Joe†Bommarito. Bommarito was a former employee who tried to set up a rival produce hauling firm to rural Illinois groceries. As usual, Cusumano walked.
January 21, 1966 - George (Stormy) Harvill,fought against the mob for the control of St Louis Laborers Local 42.
October 1968 Thomas Rodgers owner of a mortuary supply company gets killed by John J Vitale.
October 2,1971 - the Flamingo junket promoter St Louisian Primo Frank "Larry" Caudera (he organized junkets from St Louis to Las Vegas). Caudera was blindfolded, shot 6 times, and his body was found in the trunk of his Cadillac on a south St Louis street on 2 October 1971 he had disappeared since 30 September 1971 when he left his home. He had left his home to meet his extortionists who had demanded half of his profits because according to them his Flamingo junkets were cutting in on the Casino Dunes junkets operations. Following further interviews and investigation into the death of Caudera, officers of the St Louis Police Homicide section, on 13 October 1971 arrested Anthony Giardano, John Vitale and James Giammanco (nephew of Anthony Giardano), charging them with the murder of Caudera. From the hearings on Organized crime in sports (racing).
1972 Louie Shoulders
November 9,1979 – John Paul Spica, associate of Anthony Giodano and a suspect in the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., is killed by a car bomb in his Cadillac.
July 31,1994 - Frank Parrino was killed by associate Joseph Monti
https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/ ... er-history
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1821284 ... -dispatch/
September 12,1910 - St Louis Fruit Supply Company stockholder and Mafioso Giuseppe “Joseph†Cammarata stabbed to death by Antonio Sansone.
December 24,1910 -Damiano Capuano the boss of Biddle Street based Little Italy was shot to death and was shot to death Christmas eve December 1910 and was replaced by Gaetano Viviano.
January 19, 1912 Salvatore Leoni the star defense witness in the murder trial of Antonio Sansone was killed.Dominic Giambrone was a prime suspect in the beheading of Salvatore Leoni.
December 17,1916 Agostino Curella was killed in Cleveland by the Bonvissuto brothers.
February 14,1917 - Vicent Butera found hacked to death in his saloon at 901 Biddle Street. He had been warned by Giambrone to close his business.ù
July 31,1920 - Carmelo Bonvissuto shot and killed by Angelo Naccarato.
August 7,1920 - Tom Spicuzza was killed by the Russo brothers,black hand members.
September 1,1920 - Angelo Bonvissuto,the Carmelo's brother was killed as revenge for the 1916 murder of Agostino Curella in Cleveland.
October 12 1921 - Wash Street drive by shooting that killed Michael Adragnaand Joseph Giammanco.
July 23,1922 - St Louis Black hand leader Frank Sicola was shot and killed.
St Louis faction boss Carmelo Fresina,was suspected in the murder of his neighbor Joe Bucceri in 1922.
September 16 1923 - Angelo Pastori the cook of Garavelli'sCafè refused to pay the pizzo and the meat from Vito Giannola's company and was stabbed to death.
October 23,1923 - Paul Giambrone died after was severely wounded 2 days ago and his son Dominick escape from St Louis and the new boss became Vito Giannola.
March 3,1924 - Joe Buselaki was killed after he had run afoul with Giannola.
September 12,1924 the body of bootlegger Sam Palizzola (family member of Alphonse) get found in St Louis, his skull was beaten in after which they dragged his body after a car at the orders of Giannola.
May 21,1926 - Mariano De Luca was killed because he refuses to pay pizzo.
June 27,1926 the Giannola brothers murder bootlegger Harvey J Dunn after which the Irish gang "the Chuckoos" declare them war.
August 21,1926 the mafiosi try to kill their former supporter Pasquale Santino what goes wrong but they kill Joseph Schamora and wound a woman. Santino had changed sides to the Cuckoos because he wants to replace Giannola and he gets support from the Aiello brothers in Chicago.
September 6,1926 Cuckoo member Peter “Pete†Webbe get shot to death in his car by the Giannola faction.
September 22 1926 the Giannola faction also murder Joseph Consiglio in his car and he worked for Santino.
The Cuckoos shoot up 23 September the Submarine Bar and kill the owner Anthony dattalo (who died 26 September 1926) who they wanted but also the innocents Frank Christian and the reporter Joseph Rubino.
August 9,1927 - Anthony F Russo and Vincent Spicuzza get into an ambush and are shot to death in their car, both have a dime in their hand.One of the killers Alphonse Palazzolo left the dimes to put the blame on McGurn (the other killer would have been Frank Agrusa and they were accompanied by Impastato and Jack Licavoli), but he started to brag about the murders and William Russo heard it and started the Italian gang war.
August,24 1927 - Benny Giamanco a friend of Russo and Spicuzza got killed with the innocent Aloys Beelman.
September 9, 1927 -Alphonse Palazzolo,fate had come for Palazzolo in the form of four gun-wielding mystery men. An injured bystander, Emanuel Capraro, recalled what happened: “A man jumped out of the car and ran towards Palazzolo. The man had a pistol. Palazzolo stepped back, but the man shot at him.â€
November 10,1927 the mafiosi kill in St Louis Charles Palmisano because he didn't want to pay protection money after Palizzola was killed.
May 7, 1931 - Carmelo "Charlie" Fresina was found shot to death across the river near Edwardsville, Illinois.
1931 - Charles Sanfilippo
1932 - Giacomo Lonigro
May 1934 - Mike Palazzolo. In the months leading up to his murder, Palazzolo was feuding with mob associate Walter Mushenick and was last seen alive leaving his parents’ house with Vitale in Johnny V’s Cadillac. Palazzolo was found in a ditch hours later, shot in the head and neck, a crime Vitale would be charged with, but never convicted of.
July 9, 1934 -Dominick Giambrone - He was the boss of the Giambrone/Giordano crime family from 1912 to 1923. He then fled St. Louis. He returned to St. Louis April 1934 with his wife and three small children. Dominick was found murdered from a gunshot wound to the head on July 9, 1934 quarter mile west of Imperial, Missouri.
March 27, 1946 - Gaetano "Thomas" Buffa -It's believed that Buffa might have come to St. Louis in the 1920's when he took over leadership of the Pillow Gang. In the mid-1940s the Kansas City crime family choose Thomas Buffa and Tony Lopiparo to oversee that rackets in St. Louis. Buffa was murdered on March 27, 1946, in Lodi, California after testifying against the girlfriend of a Kansas City mobster.
August 26,1951 - Former acting boss Vito Cusumano shot and killed Joseph “Joe†Bommarito. Bommarito was a former employee who tried to set up a rival produce hauling firm to rural Illinois groceries. As usual, Cusumano walked.
January 21, 1966 - George (Stormy) Harvill,fought against the mob for the control of St Louis Laborers Local 42.
October 1968 Thomas Rodgers owner of a mortuary supply company gets killed by John J Vitale.
October 2,1971 - the Flamingo junket promoter St Louisian Primo Frank "Larry" Caudera (he organized junkets from St Louis to Las Vegas). Caudera was blindfolded, shot 6 times, and his body was found in the trunk of his Cadillac on a south St Louis street on 2 October 1971 he had disappeared since 30 September 1971 when he left his home. He had left his home to meet his extortionists who had demanded half of his profits because according to them his Flamingo junkets were cutting in on the Casino Dunes junkets operations. Following further interviews and investigation into the death of Caudera, officers of the St Louis Police Homicide section, on 13 October 1971 arrested Anthony Giardano, John Vitale and James Giammanco (nephew of Anthony Giardano), charging them with the murder of Caudera. From the hearings on Organized crime in sports (racing).
1972 Louie Shoulders
November 9,1979 – John Paul Spica, associate of Anthony Giodano and a suspect in the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., is killed by a car bomb in his Cadillac.
July 31,1994 - Frank Parrino was killed by associate Joseph Monti