Crime and their Victims
Age 42
April 1, 1887 - October 19, 1929
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
One of four brothers that made up the Lonardo crime family, Frank was gunned down during a card game in the back of a downtown Cleveland barbershop years after the murder of his brothers Big Joe and John Lonardo. While the crime w...
Crime and their Victims
Age 29
January 1, 1970 - October 13, 1927
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Part of the Lonardo crime family, John was gunned down with his brother "Big Joe" Lonardo (who at the time was the first ever crime boss of the Cleveland crime family)
Crime and their Victims
Age 42
October 20, 1884 - October 13, 1927
Calvary Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
"Big Joe" Lonardo (also known as "The Corn Sugar Baron") was the first ever crime boss of the Cleveland crime family. He and his brother John were murder by his own Underboss Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro.
Crime and their Victims
Age 65
November 24, 1897 - January 26, 1962
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
Charles “Lucky” Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania) did more to create the modern American Mafia and the national criminal Syndicate than any other single man. Luciano led a group of young Italian and Jewish mobsters against the ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 45
July 31, 1886 - September 10, 1931
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
Salvatore Maranzano was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castell...
Crime and their Victims
Age 32
May 28, 1937 - November 18, 1969
New Calvary Cemetery / Mattapan / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Donnie McGonagle was a member of the South Boston McGonagle Family, but not a member of the Mullen Gang run by his twin brother Paulie McGonagle. He had the misfortune of looking so much like his brother when Winter Hill member Wh...
Crime and their Victims
Age 35
January 21, 1939 - November 30, 1974
North America
Paulie McGonagle was a Boston mobster and head of the Mullen Gang, a South Boston street gang involved in burglary, auto theft, and armed robbery. During the war against Donald Killeen and his brothers, McGonagle successfully led ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 39
February 14, 1948 - March 10, 1987
New Calvary Cemetery / Mattapan / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Robert “Bobby” McGonagle was a Boston fireman and member of the Mullen crime family in South Boston. McGonagle’s family were heavily connected to Boston’s underworld primarily involved in burglary, auto theft, and armed ro...
Crime and their Victims
Age 45
May 6, 1944 - August 20, 1989
Princeton Cemetery / Princeton / New Jersey / USA / North America
José Menéndez was an entertainment executive and was married to Kitty Menendez, a former beauty queen, school teacher and mid-level Beverly Hills socialite. Sadly Kitty and Jose will always be remembered as the murder victims of...
Crime and their Victims
Age 47
October 14, 1941 - August 20, 1989,
Princeton Cemetery / Princeton / New Jersey / USA / North America
Kitty Menendez was a former beauty queen, school teacher and mid-level Beverly Hills socialite who was married to entertainment executive Jose Menendez. Sadly Kitty and Jose will always be remembered as the murder victims of their...
Crime and their Victims
Age 34
March 9, 1941 - January 31, 1976
Mesa Cemetery / Mesa / Arizona / USA / North America
If you have ever been on the wrong side of a conversation with local police and were read your rights (You have the right to remain silent ...) then you have Ernesto Miranda (actually his attorney) to thank. Ernesto Miranda was a ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 15
August 16, 1960 - October 30, 1975
Putnam Cemetery / Greenwich / Connecticut / USA / North America
Martha Moxley was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975. Moxley was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Bell...
Crime and their Victims
Age 52
October 11, 1940 - September 26, 1993
Evergreen Cemetery / Boston / Massachusetts / USA / North America
Detective John Mulligan was a 20+ veteran of the Boston Police Department who people, both inside and outside law enforcement, have called "the crookedest cop in Boston". Allegedly Mulligan was gaming the overtime system, stole dr...
Crime and their Victims
Age 81
November 4, 1911 - December 29, 1992
St. John Cemetery / Middle Village / New York / USA / North America
James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli was a New York mobster who was a Caporegime in the Genovese crime family who controlled the largest illegal gambling operation in the United States that employed 2,000 people and grossed over $150 million ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 61
January 21, 1916 - May 17, 1977
Knollwood Cemetery / Mayfield Heights / Ohio / USA / North America
A high level member of the Cleveland crime family who was involved in labor racketeering, drug trafficking and extortion in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon the death of mob boss John Scalish, the Five Families' decision to appoint Jame...
Crime and their Victims
Age 25
19081206 - 19341127
St Joseph Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleums / River Grove / Illinois / USA / North America
Lester Gillis, aka George Nelson, aka Baby Face Nelson was a notorious gunman and bank robber who was responsible for killing more FBI agents than any other person. He was called Baby Face Neslon due to his small size and youthful...
Crime and their Victims
Age 54
April 19, 1903 - May 16, 1957
Lake View Cemetery / Cleveland / Ohio / USA / North America
Influenced by the career of his brother-in-law, Eliot Ness began his own law enforcement career in 1927, with the United States Treasury Department. In 1929, he transferred to the Justice Department and was assigned to the Prohibi...
Crime and their Victims
Age 57
January 27, 1886 - March 19, 1943
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
Frank Nitti, nicknamed “The Enforcer,” was an Italian-American gangster and one of Al Capone‘s top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all money flowing through the operation and upon Capone's arrest and conviction on tax charg...
Crime and their Victims
Age 51
January 11, 1915 - November 26, 1966
Neuvy-sur-Loire communal cemetery / Neuvy-sur-Loire / France / Europe
Violette Nozière was a French woman who was convicted of murdering her father. Known as "L'Affaire" the trial had everything to captivate all of France in the 1930s - parracide, incest, prostitution, syphilis. Given all the lies ...
Crime and their Victims
Age 32
July 8, 1892 - November 10, 1924
Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery / Hillside / Illinois / USA / North America
As the leader of the North Side Gang in the early 1920s, Dean O'Banion was a feared Chicago mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone during the bloody and violent Chicago bootlegging wars of the 1920s. He was ...