![]() He was shot 13 times as he stepped out of his car. May 1, 1976: Chicago mob associate Jimmy Erwin, 28, an ex-convict who was suspected in the murders of two other reputed mobsters, is killed by two masked men with a shotgun and a. 31, 1976: Chicago mob associate Louie DeBartolo, 29, a heavy gambler deeply in debt to Outfit bookmakers, is found shot in the head and with his neck punctured four times with a broken mop handle in the rear of the store where he was employed. 31, 1975: Chicago mob associate and bookie Anthony Reitinger, 34, is shot to death in Mama Luna’s restaurant by two masked men. 30, 1975: Chicago mob associate and bookie Nick (Keggie) Galanos, 48, is found shot nine times in the head in the basement of his home 28, 1975: Chicago mob associate Frank (The Greek) Goulakos, 47, a federal informant, is shot six times by a masked man near DiLeo’s Restaurant, where he worked as a cook.Īug. Cardi’s uncle was Elmwood Park crew enforcer Willie (The Beast) Messino.Īug. June 19, 1975: Chicago cop and Outfit loanshark Chris Cardi, 43, is shot eight times in the back and once in the face by two masked men as his wife and children looked on inside Jim’s Beef Stand in Melrose Park. May 12, 1975: Chicago mob associate Ronnie Magliano, 43, an Outfit fence, is found blindfolded and shot behind the left ear in his set-ablaze residence, Divivo worked as an enforcer and collector for the Cicero crew. ![]() 16, 1975: Chicago mob associate Carlo Divivo, 46, is killed by two masked men who opened fire with a shotgun and a pistol as he walked out of his house. Previously, Harder had escaped a hit attempt by Aleman and, “Jimmy I.” 28, 1974: Chicago mob associate Bobby Harder, 39, a jewel thief and burglar who was believed to have become an informant, is found shot in the face in a bean field near Dwight, Ill. July 13, 1974: Chicago mob associate Orion Williams, 38, a suspected confidential informant, is found shotgunned to death in the trunk of his girlfriend’s car. Simone was a partner and protege of Sammy Paper Rantis in the funny money game. 24, 1974: Chicago mob associate Socrates (Sammy Paper) Rantis, 43 years old and known as one of the Outfit’s premier counterfeit money men, is found with his throat slashed and with puncture wounds in his chest in the trunk of his wife’s car at O’Hare airport parking terminal.Īpril 21, 1974: Chicago mob associate Billy Simone, 29, is found dead in the back seat of his own car with his hands and feet bound and a gunshot wound in the back of his head. 20, 1973: Chicago cop and “made” man, Richard Cain, 49, tied to Illinois mafia boss Sam Giancana, is shotgunned to death at point-blank range by two masked men in Rose’s Sandwich Shop on the westside of Chicagoįeb. 27, 1972: Chicago mob associate, Billy Logan, 37, a Teamsters steward and ex-husband of Aleman’s cousin, is shotgunned to death in front of his home.ĭec. Cesario had been caught carrying on a love affair with the wife of an imprisoned Outfit power. ![]() 19, 1971: Chicago soldier Salvatore (Sambo) Cesario, 53, is hit over the head with a blunt object and shot to death by two masked men as he sat with his wife in lawn chairs in front of his home smoking a cigar. By the end of their reign, the crew self-destructed and turned on each other, All of the Wild Bunch crew ended up either dead or in prison. ![]() Ferriola’s nephew Harry (The Hook) Aleman called shots for the Wild Bunch which also consisted of Jerry (The Hand) Scalise, William (Butch) Petrocelli, Anthony (Little Tony) Borsellino, Jimmy (The Ice Pick) Inendino and Gerry Scarpelli.ĭubbed the Wild Bunch after the 1969 Sam Peckinpah-helmed movie about a ragtag gang of bandits in the Old West, authorities peg the Wild Bunch with responsibility for nearly 50 gangland homicides in a ten-year period. Cicero capo Joe Ferriola put the crew together as a special personal enforcement team that would be assigned the crew’s toughest murder assignments. The Chicago mob’s Wild Bunch, a sub-unit of the Outfit’s historic Cicero crew, ran roughshod over the Windy City underworld in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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