For those who are interested, I have worked on several Mafia history-related book projects: http://mafiahistory.us/pics/huntbooks.png Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia coauthored with Martha Macheca Sheldon deals with the early Mafia in New Orleans (from the 1860s on)...

On Nov. 24, 1913, Vito and Salvatore Adamo, leaders of a Sicilian underworld faction in Detroit, were murdered. Authorities attributed the killings to an ongoing feud between the Adamos and the Giannola Brothers of the Wyandotte-Ford City area. Read more at Writers of Wrongs: https://www.writersofwr...

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On this date (November 5) in 1930: Al Mineo and Steve Ferrigno, allies of Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria and leaders of a sprawling Mafia organization in the Bronx and Brooklyn, were killed by gunmen working for Salvatore Maranzano. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wBk2NxNpo9s/WB3EKSjKFkI/AAAAAAAAHfA/fW...

Still very little information coming through official channels, though news agencies and bloggers are publishing details of the killing and identifying the killers.

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Thomas "Enforcer" Altamura headed loan sharking rackets in South Florida for the Gambino Crime Family in the 1960s. He was murdered during a turf war with Bonanno-linked Anthony "Big Tony" Esperti early on Halloween, 1967. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NS_QNmNgQ8U/W9xQeuhD6nI/AAAAAAAAKjs/aL_AJAxZql4rQD...

James "Whitey" Bulger was found dead on the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, within a high-security federal prison in Hazelton, West Virginia. Reports indicate that Bulger, 89, was beaten to death by other inmates at the prison one day after being transfered there. Federal authorities are investigating. Bu...

On this date (October 29) in 1911, Frank "Tough Chick" Monaco is stabbed to death by Nellie Lener as he attempts to rob a safe in the home of Lener's mother. The incident is regarded as the opening of a feud between underworld forces in the East Harlem Italian colony. Read: "Owner's killing is start...

On this date (Oct. 29) in 1921, the United States President commuted the counterfeiting sentence of New York City Mafia leader Ignazio Lupo. https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HzK5yckFTKk/WBR3HhmHuQI/AAAAAAAAHcQ/JpBpyCtcK5sL56TwkPoAkCQjA7GDCthmgCLcB/s1600/lupo.jpg Read: U.S. President commutes sentence of M...

On this date (Oct. 28) way back in 1868, New Orleans Sicilian leader Litero Barba was killed. Initially blamed on an African-American political figure (Barba had been a member of the J.P. Macheca-led Innocenti gang that terrorized African-American political rallies), the murder was later attributed ...