Author: Darrell J. SteffensmeierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Organized Crime in Pennsylvania
Author: Darrell J. SteffensmeierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Pennsylvania Crime Commission
Author: DIANE Publishing CompanyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788145622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Organized Crime in Pennsylvania
Author: Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: Pennsylvania
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Report
Author: Pennsylvania Crime CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Little Chicago
Author: Dennis MarsiliPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692538920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Nonfiction account of the history of organized crime in New Kensington, Pennsylvania
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania Crime CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania
Author: Thomas WhitePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614236097
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The region played reluctant host to the likes of the infamous Biddle Boys, who escaped Allegheny County Jail by romancing the warden's wife, and the Cooley Gang, which held Fayette County in its violent grip at the close of the nineteenth century. Then there was Pennsylvania's own Bonnie and Clyde--Irene and Glenn--whose murderous misadventures earned the "trigger blonde" and her beau the electric chair in 1931. From the perilous train tracks of Erie to the gritty streets of Pittsburgh, authors Thomas White and Michael Hassett trace the dark history of the crooks, murderers and outlaws who both terrorized and fascinated the citizenry of western Pennsylvania.
Steel City Mafia
Author: Paul N. HodosPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467153753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don... The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, OH faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, PA crew violently clamped down on their city. Discover gritty stories of a made member who controlled who a local police department hired, an informant who betrayed his own mafia grandfather and father, numerous unsolved murders and a mob mole in the Pittsburgh office of the FBI. This is the tale of a mafia family at the pinnacle of its power, willing to do anything to hold on to that power and its downfall in the criminal underworld.
Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s
Author: Anne Margaret Anderson with John J. BinderPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467121177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Philadelphia Organized Crime in the 1920s and 1930s explores a little-known but spirited chapter of the Quaker City's history. The hoodlums, hucksters, and racketeers of Prohibition-era Philadelphia sold bootleg booze, peddled illicit drugs, ran numbers, and operated prostitution and insurance rings. Among the fascinating personalities that created and contributed to the Philadelphia crime scene of the 1920s and 1930s were empire builders like Mickey Duffy, known as "Prohibition's Mr. Big," and Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, dubbed the "King of the Bootleggers"; the violent Lanzetti brothers, who ran their own illegal enterprise; mobster Harry "Nig Rosen" Stromberg, a New York transplant; and the arsenic widows poison ring, which specialized in fraud and murder. Bringing to light rare photographs and forgotten characters, the authors chronicle the underworld of Philadelphia in the interwar era. The upheaval caused by the gangs and groups herein mirrors the frenzied cultural and political shifts of the Roaring Twenties and the austere 1930s.