Francesco (Frankie Yale) Uale - he was an old time, original Camorra boss in Brooklyn. One of the major powers of the Neopolitan underworld. This is Yale after gunmen machine-gunned his automobile forcing him to crash into a front yard. Legend has it the Al Capone was behind his killing.

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Irish mobster Danny Greene was a constant thorn in the side of the Cleveland’s Italian mob. Here is a photo of his home after they bombed his house to the ground. They were hoping he was in it...down the road, the mafia finally blew him to “kingdom come” in his automobile.

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1950s - murder on Mulberry Street! A reality of life in New York’s Little Italy.

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James (Jimmy Flip) DeFilippo was found shot dead under a viaduct in Upstate New York. Binghamton mafiosi Anthony (Gov) Guarnieri became the prime murder suspect. It’s said that DeFilppo was a stool pigeon, and that’s why he got clipped.

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1979 - Carmine (Lilo) Galante murder scene outside Joe & Mary’s Italian Restaurant on Knickerbocker Avenue in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

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1957 - underboss Frank (Don Cheech) Scalise is shown here minutes after being shot to death while picking peaches at his local fruit/vegetable market in the Bronx.

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Bruno Carnevale (1942-1972), was a Gambino Family associate, and well known heist-man. He engaged in post-office burglaries and other high-end robberies/hijackings. On April 6, 1972, he was caught by surprise in front of his Queens Village home and shotgunned. Carnevale had over $1,400 cash in his pockets. Police suspected he was killed for either being a suspected rat, having been a loudmouth talking about mob exploits, or a cleaning up of loose ends of a sophisticated mob-run burglary crew.

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Colorized version of the moment the Gallo brothers entered a car to leave the scene of brother Larry’s near strangling at Brooklyn’s Sahara Lounge. (Note the rope burns in his neck).

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1920’s - NYC gangland victim... (notice the spats and straps so reminiscent of the era).

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This lady’s seen better days, and I don’t think the powder room’s gonna help her!

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Murder of Elio Ganci, Monreale, 1976.



Altofonte 1978. Giovanni Lo Nigro, his body riddled with 100 bullet holes.



Palermo 1979. Sergio Ciriminna, a young robber killed during a sharing out of stolen goods.



Palermo 1979. The murder of journalist Mario Francese.



Palermo, 1979. Murder of Salvo Di Salvo.



Palermo, 1979. Rosario Montaperto killed by police after an hold up.



Palermo, 1982. Giuseppe Genova's body, a relative of Tommaso Buscetta. A triple homicide in pizzeria.



Palermo, 1982. Giuseppe Genova's body, a relative of Tommaso Buscetta. A triple homicide in pizzeria.



Palermo, Brancaccio district, 1982. Murder of Antonino Grado.



Palermo, 1983. The murder of Giuseppe Misuraca.



Palermo, 1982. Antonio D'Amico's body, killed with Giuseppe Genova, a relative of Tommaso Buscetta. A triple homicide in pizzeria.



Palermo, 1982. Murder of G. Mineo



Palermo, 1983. Attentato contro il giudice Rocco Chinnici.



Palermo, 1983. Massacre of judge Chinnici.



Palermo, 1981. Murder of Sebastiano Bosio.



Villagrazia di Carini 1981. The murder of Mafia boss Nino Badalamenti.



Casteldaccia 1982. The body of Ignazio Pedone, kidnapped, killed and bound in the boot of his car.



Palermo, 1981. Salvatore Inzerillo murder.



Palermo, 1981. Salvatore Inzerillo murder.



Palermo, 1983. Massacre of judge Chinnici.



Palermo, 1986. Murder of Sebastiano Briolotta.



Palermo, 1983. Massacre of judge Chinnici.



Palermo, 1985. Muder of the police detectives Ninni Cassarà and Roberto Antioca.



Palermo, 1985. Muder of the police detectives Ninni Cassarà and Roberto Antioca.



Palermo, 1984. Murder of Francesco Lo Iacono.



Palermo, 1986. The body of Matteo Zanca, suspected of being a Mafia killer.



Palermo 1987. Antonio Ciulla, killed the day he left the Ucciardone prison.



Palermo, 1982. Murder of Benedetto Buscetta.



Palermo, 1982. Murder of Benedetto Buscetta.



Palermo, 1982. Murder of Benedetto Buscetta.



Palermo, 1986. The body of Matteo Zanca, suspected of being a Mafia killer.



Palermo, 1986. Murder of Sebastiano Briolotta.



Antonio Ciulla, killed the day he left the Ucciardone prison. Palermo, 1987.



Vincenzo Gibaldi... better known as “Machine Gun Jack McGurn” - was a top Chicago hood and Capone intimate. He was a prime suspect in the infamous St. Valentines Day Massacre. His underworld exploits caught up with him years later. He was gunned down in this bowling alley, ending his notorious mob career.



An original member of Joe Profaci’s Brooklyn crew, Giovanni Scimone aka “Johnny Scimini”, “Johnny Green”, is seen here after receiving a “work out” by the Gallo Gang. He was one of five key Profaci men that were kidnapped by the Gallo’s and used as leverage to demand certain concessions from Profaci.... Scimone was alleged to have later gotten revenge by participating in the attempted strangling of Larry Gallo.



His face and head smashed in and swollen from Louisville-sluggers, Tony Spilotro had gotten a little too big for his britches.... but Chicago boss Tony Accardo brought him back to reality rather quickly!...by the way, Accardo’s nickname was “Joe Batters”.



Las Vegas based Chicago soldier Anthony (Tony the Ant) Spilotro fell out of favor with the boys back home. They decided to send him and his kid brother a calling card. The brothers were viciously beaten to death with baseball bats and buried in a shallow Nevada desert grave.



“Sonny Red” Indelicato’s corpse is discovered in an empty lot in Ozone Park, Queens. He was one of three Bonanno capo’s murdered in a struggle for Family power.



Murder photo of Colombo soldier Joseph DeDomenico aka “Joe Brewster”. His capo and trusted “buddy” Greg Scarpa Sr. did the job on him.



The attempted gangland murder of notorious labor extortionist and loan shark “Cockeyed Sam” Perrone was front page news. Sam wised up after the attack and backed up on his desire to push for a higher position within the Zerilli hierarchy..... wise man indeed!

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This is all that remains of the car that Detroit “capodecina” Salvatore (Cockeyed Sam) Perrone was sitting in when a planted bomb exploded. Sam lost his leg in the bombing but considering what that car looks like I’d say he was one very lucky mafioso indeed!

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Italia 1982 - in a “bordello”, a prostitute and several of her clients are photographed as police comb the murder scene.

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1980 - the town of Capaci, three assassins murdered the owner of the Hotel Costa Smeralda. But this woman, not knowing who was killed but fearing it was her son and about to faint, is being held up and consoled by Carabinieri and neighbors.

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His name was Vincenzo Battaglia and they killed him under the cover of darkness, among the garbage. This is his wife screaming and crying upon hearing the gunshots and running out in her house coat, only to find his bloody corpse.

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Top Sicilian “Capo” Leoluca Bagarella shown here in cuffs, under arrest in 1980.

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Circa 1970’s - holding “court” right in the street, this mafioso got a thumbs down decision by the bosses.... the result of losing a “table” ....multiple shots, point-blank right to the face and head Sicilian style!



Killed while approaching his car right in the street, this unfortunate fellow got shot multiple times up close, right in the face...... “Leave the gun, take the Cannoli”! 😎



Playing games mafia style.... looks like this ones a “doubleheader”! Just another day for the “boys at work”..... Trapanese style!



With a surprised look still on his face, it looks like this victim of the mafia couldn’t even get the words out of his mouth before meeting his maker.



An early mafia victim got caught short in a cafe, and it became a bloodbath.



Brooklyn Camorra Boss Francesco (Frankie Yale) Ioele is seen here after crashing his sedan, and laying mortally wounded in the street. His car was overtaken by machine-gunners sent East by Al Capone.



Rochester, NY underboss Salvatore (Sammy G) Gingello’s car, or what remains of it after a rival mafia faction detonated a massive bomb under his car during an internal mob war for supremacy of the Family.



Albert Anastasia after he got way too close a shave at the famed Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan - 1957.



During the third Colombo civil war veteran soldier Lorenzo (Larry Lamps) Lampasi got caught short by the opposition. This Orena faction loyalist was shot to death early one morning when he got out of his car to close the yard fence behind him.



A very graphic 1931 photo of “the job” done on boss Salvatore Maranzano. It’s alleged that Lucky Luciano and his followers farmed out the actual killing to his Jewish associates led by pal Meyer Lansky.... Don Turiddo put up one hell of a battle. The four assassins had to repeatedly stab and shoot the old man before he was finished.



Rudolph Marfeo - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



Raymond (Slick) Vecchio - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



(Mousie) Rotondo - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



(Baby) Curcio - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



(Buffy) Buccari - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



Anthony Mecie - murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



Angelo DiPalma = murder victim under New England Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca



Policy banker Frank Abbatemarco - November 1959..... the Gallo brothers did the work.

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The blood-splattered body of Vito Scaglione at his barbershop in Queens.



A losing hand! Paolo Violi, an acting capodecina in the Bonanno Family's Montreal Cotroni faction, shot in the head while sitting down to play cards in January 1978.



The Two Tony’s - Brancato and Trombino..... get it California style from future rat Jimmy Fratianno



Rat Eugenio Giannini while he was still yapping!



Eugenio Giannini lays in a East Harlem gutter after Valachi’s boy Joey and Patty Pagano do their work!



A mafioso in Italia got caught short.

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Oh my bloody Valentine! .... Chicago style. Future DeCavalcante capo Giuseppe Lolordo was said to have done the “work”.

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Mulberry Street back in the day... just another night's work!



Thomas (Tommy the Enforcer) DiBrizzi is found frozen stiff in his car truck in a Trumbull CT., parking lot.



1990. Lucchese soldier Anthony DiLapi is shot dead by (Little Joey) D'Arco in an underground parking garage in California, having been tracked to the West Coast by Lucchese assassins. This would be Lucchese soldier Joseph D'Arco's first piece of work.



Nicholas (Nicky Black) Grancio, Orena Faction capo, shotgunned during the third Colombo war.

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Vincent (Vinny Venus) Fusaro shot while hanging his Christmas lights outside his house during the third Colombo war.



Salvatore Maranzano murdered in his midtown Manhattan office in 1931.,,his death would be the precursor to the creation of The Commission as we know it today.

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1930s gang war victim.

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Colombo associate Vinnie Fusaro shot to death in front of his Brooklyn house during the third Colombo war.



December 1985. Sparks Steakhouse midtown Manhattan. Castellano driver Tommy Bilotti repeatedly shot in the face.

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Gambino hitman Anthony (Nino) Gaggi in the hospital with self-inflicted wounds during the murder of Jimmy "The Clam" Eppolito and his son.

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1987 John "Otto" Heidel, a member of the bypass gang, a sophisticated burglary ring...tying up loose ends.

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1999. Gerlando "George from Canada" Sciascia, a Bonanno capo killed by boss Joe Massino for speaking out of turn.

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1930s mob-style air conditioning...he got ventilated.

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1963. Carmine Persico and "Funzi" D'Ambrosio are ambushed during the Gallo-Profaci gang war...Carmine got hit in the mouth, shoulder, and hand by shots from a carbine leaving him with a crippled hand for life.

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1982. Anthony "Tony" Mirra killed for introducing undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco into the Bonanno Family.

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1933. The infamous "Buster from Chicago" whose real name was Sebastiano Domingo is cut down by bullets on the Lower East Side.

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Joseph Rosen killed by Murder, Inc. executioners at the direction of Albert Anastasia and "Lepke" Buchalter in the early 1940s.

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1988. Gambino Family stool pigeon Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson gets his.



The FBI finds the remains of Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano. "Sonny Black" was killed for introducing undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco into the Bonanno Family.

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1980s. FBI surveillance photo of Gambino consigliere and powerhouse Joseph N. Gallo at his hangout in Astoria, Queens.



1930s gangland victim.

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1990. Gambino soldier and construction racketeer Louis DiBono shot to death in a Manhattan parking garage on the orders of John Gotti.



1936. Genovese power Dominick "Dick Terry" Didato is killed in New York's Little Italy by Vito Genovese thereby eliminating competition for the position of boss.

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The car of Genovese soldier Lawrence Ricci is found in a New Jersey parking lot. Ricci's decomposing body was found in the trunk, not in the best of shape.



1940s mob hit.

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The stool pigeon who could sing but couldn't fly. Murder, Inc. hitman and informer Abe "Kid Twist" Reles after he was thrown out of a window at the Coney Island Half Moon Motel.

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December 1985. Tommy Bilotti and Paul Castellano.



1970s mob hit.

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The Sahara Lounge in Brooklyn moments after the attempted strangling of Larry Gallo by Junior Persico and Sally D. This incident would break the truce in the Gallo-Profaci war.

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1991 - the third Colombo war. Aging Colombo soldier "Black Sam" Nastasa is shot dead in Brooklyn at a private social club he ran, The Belvedere Social Club, by the Orena faction. It was a shame because although a Persico loyalist, Sam was a non-combatant, an old man.

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Genovese waterfront racketeer Lawrence Ricci... future murder victim.

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Persico faction loyalist Hank "The Bank "Smurra, third Colombo war, Orena faction killers caught up to him in Brooklyn.

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Rochester Family gang war. Underboss Sammy Gingello gets blown up in his car.



Gambino soldier Roy De Meo and his gang of killers do a number on John Quinn and his girlfriend Cherie Golden.



Bonanno capo "George from Canada" Sciascia.



Double gangland murder.

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Gambino mobster Tommy "The Enforcer" Altamura shot dead in Florida by "Big Tony" Esperti.



Buckwheat's killing Chicago style. William "Action Jackson" Jackson was hung alive on a meathook, chunks of his flesh were sliced off including his cock and balls. While throwing water on him, he was hit with an electric cattle prod.

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Chicago mob associate and Teamster bigwig Allen Dorfman is shot dead...just to make sure he doesn't talk.



The Commission-sanctioned killing of Chicago mob boss Sam "Mooney" Giancana...the results of doing the CIA's bidding with the attempted murder of Fidel Castro.



Rosario "Black Sam" Nastasa, a victim of the third Colombo war in the early 90s.



Vincent Fusaro. A victim of the early 90s Colombo war. He died at the hands of Greg Scarpa.



Gambino soldier Louis Di Bono died because he didn't show up when John Gotti ordered him to come in.



In 1959, Frankie "Frankie Shots" Abbatemarco, a top Profaci policy banker, was killed by the Gallo mob on orders from the boss. This killing was the precursor to the Gallo-Profaci war.



Stefano Ferrigno and Manfredi Mineo. Important double murder during the Castellammarese War.



1967 mob associate Rocco Savino

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Gambino associate and informant Wilfred Johnson.

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This gangland victim is caught short as he arrives home to his apartment.



Colombo member and informant Gregory Scarpa with his eye shot out.

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Colombo soldier Henry "Hank the Bank" Smurra.



Colombo soldier Joseph "Joe Brewster" DeDomenico.



Ernest "Ernie the Hawk" Rupolo before.

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Mob informant Ernest "Ernie the Hawk" Rupolo after.

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Early 1940s mob mayhem.

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Boss of Bosses Castellammarese Salvatore Maranzano.

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Anti-Fascist editor Carlo Tresca. Lilo Galante's work.



Frank Costello gets a headache. Vito Genovese's message to retire.

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Albert Anastasia gets too close a shave. Best regards from Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino.

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Date night gone bad..."Little Augie" Pisano and his date Janice Drake found shot to death by La Guardia Airport in 1957.



Lucchese associate Rocky Savino.

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1974. Colombo soldier Anthony "Tony Long" Ricciardo.



Third Colombo War. Colombo soldier Nicholas "Nicky Black" Grancio. Orena Faction.

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1985 Big Paul Castellano. John Gotti shoots his way to the top.



Murder Inc. killer and stool pigeon Abe "Kid Twist" Reles.

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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. Best regards from the boys back home.

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Antonio "Tony Bananas" Caponigro. For his greed of money, the boys shoved dollar bills up his ass and down his throat.

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A busy night for the Boys at Work.

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Philadelphia Boss Angelo Bruno. Shotgunned to the back of the head.

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Philadelphia Boss Angelo Bruno. His murder was plotted by Antonio Caponigro and others. They would not live to enjoy their success.

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The Boys at Work -- just another night on the job.

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Lunch with the boys ends badly...Genovese Underboss and Frank Costello confidante, Willie Moretti shot to death in New Jersey.

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Angelo Bruno...The Gentle Don. Unfortunately, his departure was not so gentle.

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Double murder "gangland style"..."Little Augie" Pisano did not heed the order to come in to see the boss. He paid the ultimate price.

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1940s gangland slaughter.

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"Joe the Boss'" brother John Masseria. Collateral damage.

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"Trunk music"...a mob-style melody.

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Sonny Franzese, "Johnny Irish" Matera, and company would be indicted for Rupolo's murder. They would all be acquitted at trial.

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1971 Italian American Unity Day Rally. Mob Boss Joe Colombo shot.



Future mob boss Joe Colombo's father, Nino Colombo and his gal pal. 1938.

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1971. Joe Colombo is shot and incapacitated...never to recover, remaining in a coma until his death.

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Joe Colombo, moments after being shot, is attended to.

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Colombo's would-be assassin Jerome Johnson shot immediately after by a Colombo soldier.



Rushing Joe to the hospital...their best efforts would be in vain.

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1971 Italian American Unity Day Rally. The crowd goes crazy after Joe is shot. Jerry Ciprio choking the wrong suspect.

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Bonanno associate Randy Pizzolo...Bonanno higher-ups thought he was a little too loud and boisterous for his own good.



Anthony "Ace" Aiello...doing a life bit for the Pizzolo murder.



Randolph Pizzolo didn't know how to keep his mouth shut or when to quit.



1930 "gangland murder" victim.

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Robbing mob crap games can be bad for your health. The "Two Tony's," Tony Trombino and Tony Brancato. Mob vengeance California-style.



Just another day at the office...the boys at work.



A hidden trap in the car seat to store guns or other contraband.



Bugsy Siegel having a bad day.

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Gambino captain Eddie Lino shot to death by the mafia cops.



Mob murder in Los Angeles...Tony Broacato and Tony Trombino executed by Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno.

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A double header... "gangland style."

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Carmine "Lilo" Gigante after his release from Atlanta Federal Prison.

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1979. Joe and Mary's Restaurant, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Galante murder scene.

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Galante's funeral on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.



Galante's daughter, Nina, is heartbroken.

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The Lord High Executioner...at the end of the line in the barbershop at the Park Sheridan Hotel.

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Brooklyn 1990. Gambino associate Louis Tuzzio is killed on orders of Bonanno consigliere Anthony Spero.

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The Commission ordered killing of Bugsy Siegel.



1931. Guiseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria was holding an ace, but he still had a losing hand.

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These two ended up with a serious headache.

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Vito Genovese starts maneuvering for the top spot.



1979. Carmine "Lilo" Galante...even in death still clenching his famous cigar.



Lilo Galante and Leonardo "Nardo" Coppola murder scene.



Nardo Coppola.



Galante murder scene.



1979. Joe and Mary's Italian American Restaurant...Lunch was great. Dessert, not so much.



1979. Carmine "Lilo" Galante's rise to the top of the New York underworld is cut short in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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The wrong place at the wrong time...Beauty queen Janice Drake is killed along with "Little Augie" Pisano.

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Mafia massacre.



1931. Boss of Bosses Salvatore Maranzano murder scene.

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1935. Arthur Flegenheimer, better known as "Dutch Schultz,"...nears the end.

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1972. Umberto's Clam House on Mulberry Street...where "Crazy Joe" Gallo meets his maker.



1959. Paul Castellano in happier days.



Paulie looks surprised.



1985. Sparks Steak House, Midtown Manhattan. Castellano buys the farm.

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Castellano Underboss and driver, Thomas Bilotti.



Castellano and Bilotti murder scene.

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Castellano and Bilotti murder scene.

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Castellano and Bilotti murder scene.



Castellano and Bilotti murder scene.

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Castellano and Bilotti murder scene.



Minutes after the attempted strangling of Larry Gallo at the Sahara Lounge in Brooklyn by Junior Persico and Sally D...brother Joey's not happy.

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