By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"Death will be the proof that we lived." - Rosario Castellanos
The Killer.
It seemed to some, Leoluca Bagarella organized his murders with the same care and deliberation you might…
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
The catalyst is an arrest and a search.
On July 7, a bar-owner on Via Francesco Crispi, near the Palermo waterfront, finds a hand gun left behind by a customer. It’s a Brazilian made, six-shot Taurus.38 Special. He…
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
If you stroll through the gardens of Villa Bonanno, in Piazza Vittoria, Palermo, late in the afternoon as the sun is slowly sinking over Tunisia, the towering palms and beautiful walkways that seem to meander forever can quietly seduce you. Everywhere,…
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
Cadaveri Eccellenti: Excellent, or more appropriately, eminent corpses, is a term created by the Italian author Leonardo Sciascia, to denote public or noteworthy figures killed by the Mafia in Sicily. The original victim may have…
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By Thom L. Jones for Gangsters Inc.
"Man turns his back on his family, we’ll he ain’t just no good." - Bruce Springfield…
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The media called them raggazzi di una stagione ‘straordinaria: “The boys of an extraordinary season.”
Beppe Montana and Calogero Zucchetto and Pippo Giordano and Roberto Antiochia and Natale Mondo and Ninni Cassarà and the rest of the Squadra Mobile, the Flying Squad. They knew what they had to do and lived their lives doing…
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Organized crime at its most organized. That’s what Sicilian Cosa Nostra achieved by organizing all the families on the island in what are called ‘mandamenti’. Gangsters Inc.’s Angelo Carmelo Gallitto explains that “a 'mandamento' is formed by three or more neighboring crime families and it's led by a 'capomandamento', who is a member of the Provincial…
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