You saw the movie. You know the bomb. But you don’t know what happened when the hitman came home for Sunday dinner. You’ve seen the movies. You’ve seen Danny Greene, the Celtic warrior who laughed at the Mafia, get blown to pieces in a dentist’s parking lot in Cleveland . You’ve read about the Cleveland…
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COMING SOON: ONE MAN CRIME SPREETHE BOOK “Most of what follows is true… The rest is just how I remember it.” In the dying days of the American Mob, there was a “neutral zone”—Erie, Pennsylvania. It sat about 100 miles from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. It was a sanctuary city for thieves, hitmen, and safecrackers…
Rogues Gallery Jimmy “JR” Russell: The Mentor “If you’re gonna do it, you’re gonna do it right.” The man who started it all. A legend in Lackawanna and Erie, JR was an original “OG” who spent 27 of his 57 years in prison because he refused to rat. He was a chess master in a…