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- Gabe Paoletti
- Joe Masseria, 1931. In 1930, a Sicilian faction led by Salvatore Maranzano waged war against a Sicilian-American group led by Joe Masseria for control of Mafia activity in the United States.
- Albert Anastasia, 1957. Detectives take notes and examine the barbershop of New York's Park Sheraton Hotel, where the body of Murder Inc.' s Albert Anastasia lies, partially covered, on the floor after his murder by unknown gunmen.
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929. On February 14, 1929, seven members of the North Side Gang were trapped in a garage, lined up against the wall, and shot to death by members of Al Capone's rival gang, which was at war with the Irish North Siders for control of Chicago.
- Carmine Galante, 1979. The body of Carmine "Lilo" Galante (top right), boss of the Bonanno crime family, lies outside of Joe & Mary's Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn.
Sep 12, 2023 · David Critchley’s article in the July 2009 issue of Informer Journal revealed that the widely accepted photo of Maranzano was actually that of a British criminal named Salvatore Messina. Then, in 2019, a discovery by another researcher uncovered a photo believed to be the real Maranzano.
Salvatore Maranzano (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre maranˈtsaːno]; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931), nicknamed Little Caesar, [1] was an Italian-American mobster 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.
Salvatore Maranzano was married to Elizabetta Minore with whom he reportedly had four children. After his death, he was buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Queens, New York.
Castellammare Del Golfo was a very popular mafia hotspot in the world along with Palermo. Soon Maranzano married a women named Elizabetta Minore, a daughter of a local mafia don. This allowed Maranzano to quickly rise through the ranks. During this period Maranzano's history is not well known.
Sep 6, 2024 · Salvatore Maranzano was an American gangster of the Prohibition era and leader among the old-country-oriented Italians, known as “Moustache Petes,” many of whom were former members of the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra.
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Oct 13, 2024 · Salvatore "Little Caesar" Maranzano was the boss of what would become the Bonanno family in Prohibition-era New York until he was killed on September 10, 1931. How Salvatore "Little Caesar" Maranzano rose to the top, formed the Mafia as we know it, and then suffered a tragic fall.
