Mafia Minute

Born in Kansas City, Charles (Mad Dog) Gargotta originally started out as the trusted sidekick, driver, and bodyguard of boss...

Benjamin (Benny the Bug) Ross was identified during the U.S. Senate Investigation Hearings conducted by Robert Kennedy back in the...

Frank “Chick 99” Callace was one of the earliest members of the old Gaetano Lucchese Family’s East Harlem faction.

Andrew (Andy Wilson) Gargiulo was identified as a formally inducted soldier of the Genovese Family. He operated in the Coney...

Which mob boss brother was the most powerful and influential during his underworld career?

Jimmy Roselli, whose cool operatic type of voice made him a top crooner and who Jerry Lewis once said "sings...

On June 1, 1976, Joseph (Do-Do) Pastore was found murdered, his body trussed up and thrown behind a dumpster. Another...

On July 7, 1979, Paddy Maccchiarole's son John, followed in his father's footsteps, meeting the Grim Reaper long before his...

On March 22, 1978, a Long Island, NY waterproofing contractor named Leopold (Leo) Ladenhauf was reported as a missing person...

On one cold morning in 1980, the NYPD came upon a grisly scene involving Genovese Family soldier Vincent (Jamesy) Delio.

On March 29, 1974, the bullet-riddled body of reputed Genovese Family enforcer Thomas (Red) Delio was discovered in the trunk...

In 1978, police found a grisly scene inside a trunk of a car parked near a supermarket.

James "Cowboy" Mirro was a Chicago outfit loanshark who once led police on a wild car chase one warm summer...

Chicago Outfit boss Fiore (Fifi) Buccieri had a reputation for violence and back in 1936, he put it on display...

During his heyday, mafioso Charles Inglesia, better known in the Windy City as “Chuckie English,” was a top soldier with...