Although Joe Ianni was literally born into the “tradition” and groomed very early on by his father, Frank, to be a devout Mafia adherent, Joe was, by all accounts, also a very hard-working man who ran a number of successful restaurants alongside his dad. But innate habits and family tradition run deep…
When Joe discovered that a local “negro” (as the local media reported) had viciously assaulted and raped an innocent young waitress who worked for him, Joe instinctively took matters into his own hands and went out hunting for her attacker. When Joe caught up to him, the mafioso beat and whipped the man so severely that he later died from his injuries.
Initially arrested for atrocious assault, Joe’s charges were later upgraded to 1st-degree murder. But nobody was convicting Joe Ianni of anything — especially not for killing a rapist — least of all, the people sitting on that Dallas County Grand Jury hearing the evidence against a local neighborhood mafioso.
