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popular name: Peter Limone

date_of_death: June 19, 2017

age: 82

cause_of_death: Cancer

claim_to_fame: Crime and their Victims

best_know_for: Peter Limone was an active member in the Patriarca crime family as a bookie and was an up-and-coming mobster in the Boston crime family who, prior to his arrest, was only arrested once for running a dice game. In 1965, Edward "Teddy" Deegan was found murdered in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Limone was arrested and in 1968 Limone, Joseph Salvati, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco were found guilty of murder after FBI informant Joseph "The Animal" Barboza and fellow hitman Vincent "Jimmy the Bear" Flemmi fingered them as the killers of Deegan. Only problem was that Barboza and Flemmi (along with two associates) murdered Deegan and the FBI was doing Whitey Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi a favor by falsifying evidence and testimony against Limone and his associates. In 2001, Limone was released from prison after serving 33 years for a murder that he didn't commit and was awarded a $26 million judgment for his wrongful conviction. Upon his release Limone operated from Boston and served as the Patriarca family's consigliere before he was promoted to boss of the crime family.

popular name: Vincent Alo

date_of_death: March 9, 2001

age: 96

cause_of_death: Complications from cerebral hemorrhage

claim_to_fame: Crime and their Victims

best_know_for: Vincent “Jimmy Blue Eyes” Alo was a mobster and made man who operated for decades alongside Meyer Lansky and Charles “Lucky” Luciano while staying well outside of the spotlight. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo’s later career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II. Born in East Harlem in 1904, Alo built a quiet reputation in gambling rackets stretching from the Bronx to South Florida. FBI files placed him at the center of underground casinos, loan operations and even the Las Vegas skim. He avoided major indictments and convictions, making him an outlier in a world defined by arrests, violence and betrayal. Alo died in 2001 at age 96. And while he passed away in Florida from a complications of a stroke, Vicenet Alo was returned to NYC to be buried with is family at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

popular name: Stringbean Akeman

date_of_death: November 10, 1973

age: 58

cause_of_death: Homicide - gunshot wounds

claim_to_fame: Crime and their Victims

best_know_for: David "Stringbean" Akeman was an American singer-songwriter, musician, comedian, actor and semiprofessional baseball player best known for his role as a featured original cast member on the hit television show Hee Haw and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman was well-known for his "old-fashioned" banjo-picking style, careful mix of comedy and music, and his memorable stage wardrobe (which consisted of a long nightshirt tucked into a pair of short blue jeans belted around his knees — giving him the comical appearance of a very tall man with stubby legs). Akeman and his wife were shot and murdered by burglars in their rural Tennessee home near Ridgetop in 1973.