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2023.05.25 12:37 yallwannawhiteclaw David Brandt Obituary from the Lancaster Eagle Gazette..poignant and well-written!

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2023.05.11 20:45 methodwriter85 In the spring of 1981, a young woman returns home to her apartment after a night out clubbing. The following Monday, her landlord finds her body stabbed to death. Who killed Linda O'Day?

Linda O'Day was a 25-year old (though some sources list her as 28) white female who was found stabbed to death on Monday, June 1, 1981 by her landlord in her apartment in New Castle, Delaware. Her apartment was in a converted 2 1/2 story house.
Linda was a life-long resident of New Castle who had three sisters and three stepsisters. Described as quiet and hard-working, Linda worked at the state mental health hospital as a secretary and a cashier at the McDonald's on Route 13.
She was last seen alive on Saturday, May 30th around 1:30 a.m. by her friend and the friend's boyfriend after a night of nightclubbing. Her body was found at 2 p.m. on the following Monday, after a tenant living upstairs from her noticed that she hadn't picked up her mail. They went to drop her mail off at the front of her door, and upon noticing the door ajar and a foul odor, immediately went to the landlord who entered into her apartment and found her body on the floor of her bedroom. She was partially clothed and was found stabbed to death. The position of her body as well as her nightgown being pulled up to around her neck suggested sexual assault.
Linda was killed by a steak knife from her kitchen. Curiously, they found additional steak knives in Linda's laundry basket in addition to the one that was found in her body. There was vomit on either side of her bed that was not explained.
Forensic examiners believed that the area around Linda's body was cleaned as there was little blood around her, but there was blood underneath her. They did take a piece of pipe beneath her sink, but couldn't find evidence of blood in the pipe. It looks as though Linda's face was covered by her pillow face by the killer, which I think is an interesting detail.
It can be inferred that the FBI has considered Henry Lee Lucas as they requested evidence from her case as seen in the Henry Lee Lucas FBI documents, but hair fiber matching tests were inconclusive. Henry Lee Lucas did live in the region at the time of her murder and is notorious for confessing to murders he did not actually commit.
My general theory on her case is that she was getting stalked by either a customer at the McDonald's she worked at, or a patient at the mental health facility she worked at who became fixated on her.
Sources:
Henry Lee Lucas FBI Documents
June 3, 1981 New Castle Gazette (Article on Page 1, Obituary on Page 12)
Linda O'Day FBI Flyer
Linda O'Day Delaware State Police Flyer

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2023.05.08 15:03 incorruptible_bk The sentencing of Chitra Selvaraj, Frank Parlato co-conspirator, moved to May 17

Per the WDNY case docket, the sentencing of Frank Parlato's co-defendant Chitra Selvaraj has been moved to May 17.
The sentencing was previously set for May 10. This rescheduling was done at the initiative of the court.
Curiously, information from both the government and Selvaraj's lawyers has been sealed nearly in its entirety. Two pieces of information did come through:

An April 27 filing indicating that the prosecution "does not intend to advocate for a fine, regardless of the applicable maximum."
A May 3 filing stating that the prosecution "will move the Court for sentencing-related relief."

Parlato is scheduled for sentencing June 5.

Backstory

Chitra Selvaraj was manager of the One Niagara building during Frank Parlato's stint as owner of the property formerly known as the Occidental Chemical Building, also commonly called the Flash Cube Building.
Selvaraj also served as managing editor of his Niagara Falls Reporter newspaper. Her successor in that role was serial rapist Nicholas D'Angelo.
Selvaraj and Parlato were charged in a fraud scheme involving real estate in Western New York. Though the charges in 2015 initially involved the Bronfman sisters, a superseding indictment in 2018 removed all references to their dealings with the Bronfmans and concentrated solely on tax charges.
In 2021, Selvaraj agreed to a plea bargain to 1 count of violating 26 USC 7203, (willful failure to file an income tax return), for $150,000 she received while employed as a manager for the One Niagara Building. The maximum statutory penalty is 1 year in prison; additionally, Selvaraj faces deportation as a consequence of her immigration status.
In his case, Parlato plead guilty in 2022 to 1 count of failing to file paperwork on cash receipts exceeding $10,000, for rent payments totaling $19,970. The charge has a statutory maximum of 5 years imprisonment. Parlato's deal also has him admitting to having failed to file taxes for the years of 2006 to 2017; he is assessed $184,939.51 in taxes and penalties.
Per paragraph 38 of the deal bearing his signature, the government may treat this payment as "acceptance of responsibility." Parlato has also agreed not to contest the government's seizure of $1 million.

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2023.05.01 11:23 sprungy Things to do: May 1 - May 7

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2023.04.30 08:55 AutoNewspaperAdmin [Local] - Obituary: Wilhelm 'Willi' Klein Outfitted generations of Pittsburgh skiers Pgh Post-Gazette

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2023.04.26 15:48 incorruptible_bk More information about the crimes Nicholas D'Angelo plead to --and how Frank Parlato's is trying to wash his hands while dirtying up D'Angelo's underage victim

Below, I am sharing a round up of more articles about the Nicholas D'Angelo story and following up about Frank Parlato's apparent ongoing irresponsibility.

The Erie County DA, quoted here, with the note that this is graphic (hence the use of spoiler tag):
- >! In the fall of 2016, the defendant met the first victim through an online dating website and picked her up at her residence for an arranged date. The defendant drove to an unknown location in the City of Niagara Falls where he forcibly engaged in sexual conduct with the victim inside of his parked vehicle. !<
- On October 26, 2018, the defendant subjected a second victim to sexual contact by forcible compulsion at his law office in the City of Lockport.
- Between August 2019 and October 2019, the defendant engaged in sexual conduct and sexual intercourse with a third victim on his boat at a marina in Niagara County. Between September 2019 and October 2019, the defendant engaged in sexual conduct and sexual intercourse with the same victim at inside of his vehicle in the City of Niagara Falls. At the time of both crimes, the defendant, being older than 21 years of age, engaged in sexual intercourse and sexual conduct with the victim who was less than 17-years-old.
Niagara Gazette
WKBW

The Niagara Falls Reporter (owned by Frank Parlato) blames the underage sex trafficking victim

Here is the writeup of Niagara Falls Reporter, a publication edited by Frank Parlato (it often overlaps with Frank Report, which people here will probably be familiar with). I don't know that he wrote it, because since Parlato plead guilty to tax crimes, he's started wiping articles of named bylines and credits some articles to "NIAGARA REPORTER-" [sic]. However, click that byline and the URL it goes to is niagarafallsreporter [dot] com [slash] author [slash] frank).
I wouldn't normally share this article, because it is trash, but to demonstrate how unrepentant Parlato (who at least is editor here). Recall that even after learning Camila was abused as a minor, Parlato had to repeatedly be told to get his manners in order before he stopped running her photo and last name in a disgusting bit of slut-shaming.
So you'd think Parlato (or his proxy) would know better than to write this bit of apologism for rape and sex trafficking:

The third accuser, a minor who turned to prostitution to support her drug addiction, was allegedly two months short of the legal age of consent of 17 when D’Angelo began a sexual relationship.

Dismissing the victim as "a prostitute" is rather neat. It also omits some truly repulsive facts: including that D'Angelo is a grown-ass man, and a lawyer, and was working for Niagara County Social Services. He also, at one point, knew that his victim was in the welfare system (because he sought her records to dirty up her reputation).

And what does the Niagara Falls Reporter have to say for themselves?

Meanwhile, Parlato (or his proxy) tries to exonerate the publication, writing the following disingenuous description of its role in this.

"part-time as managing editor of the Niagara Falls Reporter for about three years [...] D’Angelo resigned from the Reporter in August 2020, three months before his arrest, following the announcement of a civil lawsuit by a woman who accused D’Angelo of raping her when she was his client."

This buries several facts:

D'Angelo was not just a part time staffer. He and his law practice were The Niagara Reporter's sponsor across several issues. That included front page images of D'Angelo's smirking mug.
The month after D'Angelo ceased being a "part time staffer" Parlato himself ran multiple articles stating --falsely-- D'Angelo's complete innocence. That included allowing D'Angelo to make claims, unchallenged, about the victim of a rape he committed as a youthful offender (against a younger girl).
Those claims were part of a defamation designed to chill discussion of D'Angelo's history as a rapist. That lawsuit was quietly dropped because the facts of the matter were quite clear: D'Angelo plead guilty to rape as a teenager, which was covered by the Buffalo News when it happened.
Parlato/NFR and D'Angelo continued to have some commercial relationship: At some unknown date, D'Angelo became the owner of a small media outlet of his own called "Niagara Action," which operates a Facebook and Twitter account. D'Angelo is described as the operator of both in an April 2022 news story. From 2020 to early 2023, the Niagara Falls Reporter and Niagara Action were basically intertwined. You only need to check the Twitter account for Niagara Reporter to get a bunch of Action news stories.

Parlato is currently awaiting sentencing in federal court for an unrelated tax conviction; the tentative date is June.
It's my understanding that the judge in Parlato's case is considering what factors to allow prosecutors to consider. I would certainly hope that the judge looks at a history of Parlato shirking responsibility and find that this man simply will not respect the law until he sees consequences.

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2023.04.19 21:45 AutoNewspaperAdmin [Local] - Obituary: Mary Elizbaeth Lewis Long-time acting teacher and Pittsburgh Playhouse veteran Pgh Post-Gazette

[Local] - Obituary: Mary Elizbaeth Lewis Long-time acting teacher and Pittsburgh Playhouse veteran Pgh Post-Gazette

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2023.04.16 23:20 byrdslover Former Chief Illiniwek confesses to making false claims against U of I Professor

Story

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2023.04.15 16:04 incorruptible_bk Upcoming dates in the sentencing of Chitra Selvaraj, co-defendant of Frank Parlato

Because they are coming up and have some bearing on the sentencing of former NXIVM publicist Frank R. Parlato Jr. (here is his sentencing schedule as of today), here are dates in the sentencing of his co-defendant Chitra Selvaraj from their joint docket.
Previously on the docket:

Presentence Report was filed 3/27/2023;
Revised version filed on 4/10/2023.

Forthcoming and subject to change:

Statement with Respect to Sentencing Factors, objections and/or motions, including 5K1.1 motion, government notice not to file 5K1.1 motion, or government motion for extension of time to file 5K1.1 motion, if applicable, due by 4/19/2023;
Notice by the defendant of government failure to file 5K1.1 motion, if applicable, due by 4/24/2023;
Responses to objections and/or motions due by 4/26/2023 and/or character letters and/or sentencing memorandum in support of the defendant due by 4/26/2023;
Motions to adjourn sentencing due by 5/1/2023;
Final Presentence Investigation Report, government's response papers to legal arguments in defendant's sentencing memorandum and/or any request for a non-guideline sentence in writing due by 5/3/2023;
Response to Request for a non-guideline sentence due by 5/8/2023.
Sentencing is scheduled for 5/10/2023 at 12:30 PM before Hon. Richard J. Arcara.

Chitra Selvaraj was managed the One Niagara building during Parlato's stint as owner, and served as managing editor of his Niagara Falls Reporter newspaper.
Selvaraj plead guilty to 1 count of violating 26 USC 7203, (willful failure to file an income tax return), for $150,000 she received while employed as a manager for Frank Parlato's One Niagara Building. The maximum statutory penalty is 1 year in prison; additionally, Selvaraj faces deportation as a consequence of her immigration status.
In his case, Parlato plead guilty to 1 count of failing to file paperwork on cash receipts exceeding $10,000, for rent payments totaling $19,970. The charge has a statutory maximum of 5 years imprisonment.
Though his activities may seem less severe --especially because Parlato uses his blog to minimize his misconduct-- Parlato's deal also has him admitting to having failed to file taxes for the years of 2006 to 2017; he is assessed $184,939.51 in taxes and penalties. Per paragraph 38 of the deal bearing his signature, the government may treat this payment as an acceptance of responsibility. Parlato has also agreed not to contest the government's seizure of $1 million.

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2023.04.13 18:02 AutoNewspaperAdmin [Local] - Obituary: Deb Docherty Docherty Agency founder and Pittsburgh entertainment icon Pgh Post-Gazette

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2023.04.08 15:35 AutoNewspaperAdmin [Local] - Obituary: Charles Alan Saunders Helped former inmates return to society Pgh Post-Gazette

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2023.04.04 14:50 AutoNewspaperAdmin [Local] - Obituary: David John Bartholomae, Ph.D. Professor who led Pitt's English department and focused on writing Pgh Post-Gazette

[Local] - Obituary: David John Bartholomae, Ph.D. Professor who led Pitt's English department and focused on writing Pgh Post-Gazette

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2023.03.27 15:15 ll-NORTE-ll The Hits, Misses, & Kidnappings of Canada's Mafias.

Montreal

Attemped Murders & Kidnappings:

February, 2005, Dominico Cordileone – Kidnapped and released. Father of Emilio & Dino Cordileone.
April 2005, Tony Magi – Kidnapped and escaped. The kidnappers pretended to be police and pulled him over.
May 1, 2005, Leonardo D'Angelo –
May 25, 2005, Frank Martorana – Kidnapped and released. Believed to be taken by the D'Amicos. Later released on June 1st, 2005.
October 31st, 2005, Nicolo Varacalli – Kidnapped and released. The D'Amicos of Granby kidnapped Varacalli over a drug debt. Later released on Dec 8th, 2005.
August 30, 2006, Mario Iannitto – Shot and wounded. Was in the car with Dominico Marci during the shooting.
December 21, 2007, Tony Mucci – Shot and wounded. At the time Mucci was the right hand man of Moreno Gallo.
June 17, 2008, Nino de Bartolomeis – Kidnapped and escaped. Kidnapped by Sal Scoppa, Dany De Gregorio and others for debts owed.
August 11, 2008, Tony Magi – Shot and wounded. Allegedly because he disagreed with the Mafia-Biker consortium.
December 4, 2008, Mario Marabella – Kidnapped and presumed dead. Owed Rizzuto money, history with De Vito. Kidnapped from a gas station.
June 15, 2009, Dany De Gregorio – Shot and wounded. Aligned with Giuseppe De Vito.
November 24, 2009, Ennio Bruni – Shot and wounded.
March 18, 2010, Ducarme Joseph – Shot at but unharmed. Ducarme is believed to be believed to be the one that carried out the murder of Nicolo Rizzuto Jr.
May 19, 2010, Paolo Renda – Kidnapped and presumed dead. Vito Rizzuto’s brother in law.
February 18, 2011, Rita Biasini – Shot at but unharmed. Case of mistaken identity, shooters saw Magi's car, that was driven by his wife Rita and thought it was him.
March 31, 2011, Peter Whitmore – Kidnapped. Owed a $2 million debt to the Bastone brothers.
Septemher 4, 2011, Antonio Arcuri – Shot and wounded? Unharmed? Took 4 bullets?
September 16, 2011, Raynald Desjardins & Jonathan Mignacca – Shot at but unharmed. Believed to be carried out by Montagna's allies.
December 14, 2011, Antonio Pietrantonio – Shot and wounded.
May 4, 2012, Giuseppe Renda – Kidnapped and presumed dead. Rizzuto ally turned Montagna supporter. Nephew of George Sciascia, no relation to Paolo Renda. Allegedly had a meeting with the Caruana-Cuntrera clan the day he disappeared.
August 29, 2012, Marco Lafratta – Shot and wounded. Co-owned the cafe where he was shot with Giuseppe De Vito.
September 29, 2012, Tommy Pietrantonio – Shot and wounded. Son of Vincent Pietrantonio. Targeted over debts owed.
October 10, 2012, Vincent Pietrantonio – Shot and wounded. Father of Tommy Pietrantonio. Targeted over debts owed.
December 17, 2012, Giuseppe Fetta – Shot and wounded.
☆ 2013, Gino Di Paola – Possible victim of an attempted murder sometime in 2013. Fled to Italy afterwards. Was Mirarchi's right hand man.
February 1, 2013, Tonino Callocchia – Shot and wounded. Brother-in-law of Vincenzo Armeni.
February 13, 2013, James Bertrand Shot at but unharmed. Relative of Ducarme Joseph. Possibly targeted for the murder of Nicolo Rizzuto Jr.
☆ Fall, 2013, Nino De Bartolomeis – ??
☆ 2013, Marco Campellone – ??
March 28, 2014, Nicola Pece – Kidnapped and presumed dead. Collector for Robert Ti-Bras Baillargeon.
October 3, 2014, Nicola Valiente/Valiante? – Shot at but unharmed. Shot by Andy Duroseau, who waited by their parking garage door.
December 1, 2014, Marco Pizzi – Was at the cafe when Callocchia was killed but went to the washroom. Ordered by Stefano Sollecito and carried out by Sal Scoppa. Scoppa revealed Pizzi was suppose to die that day too.
☆ July, 2015, Salvatore Scoppa – Shot and wounded? Scoppa said Marco Campellone tried to kill him.
March 28, 2016, Nino De Bartolomeis – Shot and wounded. Allegedly had several large debts. Linked to Sergio Piccirilli.
August 8, 2016, Marco Pizzi – Shot and wounded. Was rear ended while driving and when he got out of his car the occupants of the other vehicle started shooting.
February 12, 2017, Salvatore Scoppa – Shot and wounded. Shot as he left a restaurant by Fredrick Silva.
November 2, 2017, Jacques Desjardins – Kidnapped and presumed dead. Brother of Raynald Desjardins.
October 4, 2019, Serigo Piccirilli – Was allegedly the victim of an attempted murder by poisoning at the Drummondville penitentiary.
July 22, 2021, Piero Arena – Shot at but unharmed.
Sept 21st, 2021, Davide Barberio – Shot and wounded outside his home.
Nov 10th, 2021, Serafino Oliverio – Shot and wounded. AKA Sergio Lopez. Uncle of Franco, Giuseppe and Pasquale Lopez of the Lopez-Oliverio Clan. Shooting took place in Rivière-des-Prairies.
November 7, 2022, Francesco Del Balso –Victim of an attempted murder. Shot at near his home at outside a restaurant in Duvernay district of Laval.
March 15, 2023, Leonardo Rizzuto –Victim of an attempted murder. Shot in the leg while driving on hwy 440 in Laval.

Murders:

April 20, 2000, Salvatore Gervasi – Paolo Gervasi's son Scoppa said killed by Giordano as message to Paolo. Also was selling drugs to Rock Machine. Possibly HA/Vito ordered?
January 19, 2004, Carmelo Tomasino & Paolo Gervasi – Gervasi wanted revenge for his son's murder so he was killed for it. Tomasino was allegedly involved in the Paolo Gervasi murder where he was accidently shot. Instead of taking him to the hospital, Giuseppe De Vito killed him and burned the body.
August 11, 2005, Johnny Bertolo – Scoppa claims Acardi had him killed for not listening and that this ended Desjardins loyalty.
July 12, 2006, Richard Griffin – West End Gang associate. Killed after a joint drug shipment with the Rizzutos was seized.
August 30, 2006, Domenico Macri – Rizzuto crime family enforcer. Killed in retaliation of Bertolo.
March 9, 2007, Carmine Guarino – Small time Rizzuto associate.
April 26, 2007, Ezechielle De Bellis – Burned to death. Rizzuto enforcer.
September 7, 2007, Frank Velenosi – Montreal mob figure. A main lieutenant of Rizzuto crime family under Francesco Arcadi.
January 7th, 2008, Tony Stocola – Formly ran a escort service.
January 30, 2008, Constantin Alevizos – Rizzuto enforcer. Ordered dead for stealing $500,000 of Rizzuto money.
January 16, 2009, Sam Fasulo – Worked under Acardi's wing.
August 21, 2009, Freddy Del Peschio – Scoppa claimed Ducarme killed Del Peschio on orders from Magi, Magi owed money to him.
December 28, 2009, Nicolo Rizzuto Jr – Vito's son. Killed by Ducarme Joseph, on orders of Tony Magi
March 18, 2010, Pete Christopulous & Jean Gaston – Killed in an attempt to assassinate Ducarme Joseph. Christopulous was a bodyguard for Haitian gangster Ducarme Joseph and Gaston was an Innocent store manager.
June 29, 2010, Agostino Cuntrera & Liborio Sciascia – Interim Rizzuto leader and his bodyguard are killed outside Cuntrera’s office. Scoppa said De Vito committed the murders.
September 29, 2010, Ennio Bruni – Rizzuto clan enforcer is killed in busy strip mall.
November 10, 2010, Nicolo Rizzuto Sr – Montreal mafia patriarch, shot in his kitchen by a sniper’s rifle.
January 31, 2011, Antonio Di Salvo – Montreal mobster Frank Arcadi lieutenant, killed outside his home.
October 24, 2011, Lorenzo LoPresti – Rizzuto ally-turned-rival? Son of Rizzuto lieutenant Joe Lo Presti who was killed in 1992, is killed on his home balcony.
November 24, 2011, Salvatore Montagna – Former Acting Boss of Bonanno Family. Murdered after a falling out with Desjardins.
March 1, 2012, Giuseppe Colapelle – A Rizzuto lieutenant turned Desjardins loyalist. Was spying on Montagna for Desjardins.
March 1, 2012, Steven Laporte – Owner of a car dealership. Target of several arsons int he year leading up to his murder.
March 13, 2012, Salvatore Silletta – Rizzuto connected drug dealer.
July 15, 2012, Walter Gutierrez – Killed while walking home.
August 12, 2012, Riccardo Ruffolo – Connected to Vincenzo Armeni. Had outstanding debts?
August 14, 2012, Chenier Dupuy & Lamartine Paul – Haitian street gang leaders. Are gunned down within hours of each other, Dupuy is killed in his truck outside a restaurant, Paul was murdered as he left his apartment. Suspected of supporting anti Rizzuto wing of the Montreal mafia. Members of Bo-Gars. Rejected and slapped Woolley's "Syndicate" alliance.
August 29, 2012, Ben Zaid Moez Ben Ali – Killed while at an Italian cafe owned by Giuseppe De Vito. Possibly a innocent by stander.
☆ October 8, 2012, Domenico Arcuri Sr – Killed in Florida in a construction accident when the roof collapsed. The medical examiner reported "the context is worrisome." Father of Antonino & Dominico Arcuri Jr. Was believed to have aligned with Sal Montagna.
October 10, 2012, Frederick Murdock – Bodyguard of Vincent Pietrantonio. Was killed when gunmen broke into Pietrantonio's house and shot them over debts.
November 5, 2012, Giuseppe Di Maulo – Montreal mob figure and Desjardins brother in law, possibly led Montagna and Desjardins. Killed outside his home. Scoppa claims he stayed neutral and was killed by Tony Callocchio. Montreal Gazette says he was pulling the strings of Montagna & Desjardins.
November 15, 2012, Tony Gensale – Killed after leaving the gym. Possibly mistaken for Giuseppe Fetta.
November 17, 2012, Mohamed Awada – Desjardins associate? Business or Blood had him as a Rizzuto loyalist. Charged with Sal Scoppa in 2008.
December 8, 2012, Emilio Cordileone – Mafia lieutenant. Was close to Di Maulo. Son of Dominico Cordileone.
December 14, 2012, Domenic Facchini – Shot and killed in a building owned by De Vito's wife. No criminal record, possible message to De Vito who was in jail at the time.
January 22, 2013, Gaetano Gosselin – Brother in law to Desjardins. Murdered outside his home by members of Unit 44 or Bo-Gars.
January 31, 2013, Vincenzo Scuderi – Associated with Giuseppe De Vito and Alessandro Succapane. Scoppa said he was on Vitos Blacklist. Killed by members of Unit 44 or Bo-Gars.
April 16, 2013, Harry Mytil – Shot dead in his garage. Was believed to be the one who hired the shooters of Gaetano Gosselin. Member of the street gang Bo-Gars or Unit 44. Friend of Arsène Mompoint.
May 8, 2013 Juan Fernandez & Fernando Pimentel – Rizzuto Ontario leader, found dead in Sicily. Vito Rizzuto ordered his killing for staying neutral in the war.
☆ July 8, 2013, Giuseppe De Vito – Rizzuto rival found dead in his cell in a Quebec prison by cyanide poisoning. Scoppa claimed it was murder, police investigations noted De Vito showed no signs of suicidal tendencies.
November 10, 2013, Moreno Gallo – Rizzuto ally turned rival. Killed in Acapulco, Mexico on the three year anniversary of the murder of Nicolo Rizzuto Sr. Scoppa said Stefano Sollecito ordered it.
December 18, 2013, Roger Valiquette – Montreal mob associate. Scoppa claims Roger attempted to kill Desjardins. Scoppa said Roger was close with Stefano Sollecito but was betrayed when Roger got close to Succapane who was close to De Vito. Scoppa claims Campellone killed him.
August 1, 2014, Ducarme Joseph – Haitian gang leader. Killed in retaliation for Nicolo Jr murder.
December 1, 2014, Tonino Callocchia – Killed outside a bistro. Connected to the Di Maulo brothers and Moreno Gallo. Brother-in-law of Vincenzo Armeni. Scoppa said Tonino killed Di Maulo. Also Scoppa claims his brother & unnamed black man killed him on orders from Stefano Sollecito.
February 11, 2015, Mario Bourgeois – Killed in front of his halfway house by Brad Pitt. Mistaken for the unnamed witness in the Falduto brothers murder.
September 18, 2015, Marco Campellone – Scoppa claims he joined the Rizzuto faction. Scoppa also said Stefano Sollecito Greenlit him on request from Sal Scoppa. Reason was because Campellone tried to kill Sal. Was linked to De Vito?
March 1, 2016, Lorenzo Giordano – Killed outside his health club. Possibly was making a move for the leadership of the Montreal Mafia. Killed by Dominico Scarfo on orders by Sal Scoppa.
May 27, 2016, Rocco Sollecito – Killed in his car while sitting at a stop sign. Scoppa says his brother Sal killed Rocco for the contract Stefano Sollecito put on him.
June 2, 2016, Angelo D’Onofrio – Killed while sitting outside a Montreal coffee shop. Innocent bystander. Scoppa said street De Blasio arranged the murder, carried out by street gang members. Mistaken for Vanelli.
June 30, 2016, Giuseppe & Vincenzo Falduto – Low-level Montreal mob figures. Were shot and then their bodies were burned on orders by Sal Scoppa.
October 8, 2016, Steven Constantinou – 22 year old connected to Marco Pizzi & Liborio Cuntrera found dead in the trunk of his car.
October 15, 2016, Vincenzo Spagnolo – One of Vito Rizzuto’s most trusted lieutenants, advisors and messengers, shot to death outside his home. His son Nicola was the real target.
January 13, 2017, Ali Awada – Son of Mohamed Awada.
March 18, 2017, Nicola Di Marco – Formerly linked to Ponytail De Vito.
May 26, 2017, Mustapha Danach – Lebanese criminal with ties to Ali Awada, son of Mohamed Awada. Possibly involved in the 2017 attempted murder of Sal Scoppa.
August 17, 2017, Antonio De Blasio — Montreal mobster. Close to Stefano Sollecito. Killed outside his son’s football practice. Scoppa said he was "probably" killed off the botched hit on Vanelli.
March 18, 2018, Mario Macri – Linked to the Mafia and West End Gang (Laramée brothers).
June 28, 2018, Steve Ovadia – Andrea Scoppa's right hand man. Killed in the parking lot of a strip mall.
January 24, 2019, Tony Magi – Montreal mafia associate and construction magnate. Killed on a construction site. He had many attempts on his life before finally being killed. Scoppa claims Magi ordered the Nicolo Jr hit. Carried out by Ducarme Joseph.
February 14, 2019, Ray Khano — Mafia associate drug dealer. Killed on street corner. Connected to Arcadi.
March 25. 2019, Mike Di Battista – Montreal mob enforcer. Is killed while in his car in the Dominican Republic. Connected to Liborio Poncho Cuntrera.
March 29, 2019, Mario Simeone – Murdered in his driveway. Said to be a relative to a established member of the Montreal mafia in the early 2000s. Connected to Tony Magi.
May 4, 2019, Salvatore Scoppa – Rizzuto ally turned enemy. Brother of Andrea Scoppa. Gunned down inside the lobby of a hotel during a family event. Possibly set up by a friend a the event.
October 21, 2019, Andrea Scoppa – Rizzuto ally turned enemy. Brother of Salvatore Scoppa. Gunned down in a strip mall parking lot.
November, 2020, Frantz Louis – Connected to Davide Barberio.
July 1, 2021, Arsène Mompoint – Street gang leader that carried out many hits for the Scoppa brothers. Gunned down in a weed dispensary in Kanesatake.
July 5, 2021, Ernst Exantus – Gang member associated with Ducarme Joseph. Unsure where he lies, possible Woolley connection. Possible retaliation for Mompoint?
September 7, 2021, Piero Arena – Allegedly had debts to the Rizzutos. Victim of an attempted murder a few weeks earlier.
February 9, 2022, Domenico Macri Linked to the Mafia and West End Gang (Laramée brothers). His brother Mario was killed in 2018.
April 12, 2022, Stephane Dupuis –Shot while entering his vehicle at a Carwash. Victim of an attempted murder in 2020. Allegedly was in conflict in recent years with a man who was wounded in a shooting in 2021 in Laval, likely Davide Barberio. Police later searched residences link to the Brouillette network.
April 16, 2022, Steven Marques – Drug dealer shot in Little Italy. Killed by people connected to the HA.
May 11, 2022, Sébastien Giroux – Associate of the HA. Friend of Frederick Silva who helped hide him while Silva was wanted by police.
May 15, 2022, Hugues Leblanc – HA associate found shot to death and burned in the trunk of a car.
June 1, 2022, Bernard Cherfan – An entrepreneuleader of Lebanese OC killed at the restaurant La Perle Vietnamienne in Laval. Linked to Stefano Sollecito, Giuseppe Focarazzo, Frenn brothers, Saoumaa brothers and believed to have hidden Frederick Silva while he was wanted. Believed to be a supplier of encrypted devices for criminals. In dispute with another well known Lebanese criminal in recent years.
August 23, 2022, Maxime Lenoir – Connected to the HA and a mafia clan in Montreal but considered an independent. Shot leaving the Rockland Center in Montreal. Possibly due to a debt occurred from a failed drug shipment.
August 23, 2022, Diego Fiorita – Shot in Napoli Pizzeria. Victim of a previous murder attempt in 2020. Alleged loanshark.
October 10, 2022, Manuel Légaré – Close to Stéphane Dupuis. Most likely HA related.
October 25, 2022, Vincenzo Armeni – Shot and killed outside his family's flooring business, Centre Céramique 440.

Ontario

Attemped Murders & Kidnappings:

March 14, 2017, Saverio Serrano – Shot at but unharmed. Son of Diego Serrano. Possibly targeted by hired killer Michael Cudmore or mistaken for his brother Francesco Serrano.
April 19, 2018, Giuseppe Capobianco – Stabbed but lived. Nephew of Natale Luppino. Was stabbed after people broke into a house owned by Natale that Capobianco was staying at. Natale was possibly the intended target.
April 25, 2019, Pat Musitano – Shot and wounded. Musitano was hit coming out of his lawyers office in Mississauga.
June 16, 2019, Jason Lalonde – Shot and wounded. Musitano associate.
November 20, 2019, Benedetto Manasseri – Shot and wounded. Ottawa based criminal with links to Mirarchi & Milioto.
November 12, 2020, Michael Costa – Shot and wounded.
June 9, 2022, Vincenzo Cirillo – Shot and wounded. Arrested in 1999 in Philadelphia for drugs and in 2002 in Ontario.

Murders:

July 12, 2013, Sam Calautti & Jimmy Tusek (his driver) – Toronto mob enforcer. Murdered outside a bachelor party in Woodbridge. Suspect in the killings of a number of Rizzuto crime family members. Killed Rizzuto right hand man Gaetano Panepinto in 2000. Possible Siderno Group connection/murder?
April 24, 2014, Carmine Verducci – Toronto mobster. shot dead outside of his restaurant. Siderno Group conflict.
June 24, 2015, Maria Voci & Christopher DeSimone – Voci is a cousin of Tito Figliomeni. Both Voci & DeSimone were innocent by standers in a shooting targeting a cafe.
January 20, 2016, Alfredo Patriarca – Rizzuto Toronto associate. Killed as he pulled into his garage.
August 21 2016, John Ignagni – Friend of Cosimo Commisso (murdered 2018), connected to the Vegabonds MC. Had debts to the Wolfpack and was killed by them.
January 30, 2017, Anastasios Leventi – Killed in Toronto presumably by the Siderno Group. Affiliated with the Wolfpack.
March 14, 2017, Mila Barberi – 28-year old girlfriend of Toronto mobster's son, Saverio Serrano, is killed sitting in Serrano’s car in a attempted hit for Saverio or Francesco Serrano which he survived.
March 31, 2017, Antonio Sergi – Involved in legal weed and has OC connections
April 1, 2017, Domenico Triumbari – Killed outside a social club in Vaughn, Ont.
May 2, 2017, Angelo Musitano – Brother of Pat Musitano. Killed in his driveway. Killed by Cudmore, probably ordered by Tony Iavarone & Daniel Ranieri. Luppinos/Violis caught on tape saying it was a message to Pat.
December 3, 2017, Dean Costanza – Shot dead in his truck in Oakville. Targeted 5 years earlier by the Wolfpack's Nick Nero.
February 3, 2018, Daniel Ranieri – Protégé of Juan Fernandez. Found dead in Mexico, two years after fleeing an indictment out of Canada.
June 29, 2018, Cosimo Commisso & Chantelle Almedia – Toronto mobster, nephew of Ontario Ndrangheta boss Cosimo (The Quail) Commisso and his girlfriend. Commissos ripped off the Cuntrera-Caruanas. Killed by Wolfpack on orders by Cuntrera-Caruanas?
September 13, 2018, Al Iavarone – Kill for connection to Musitano murder? Gambling dispute in Niagara? Possibly made to LA family? Brother of Tony Iavarone.
January 30, 2019, CeCe Luppino – Luppino Family. Killed in his parents driveway. His father, Rocco Luppino is Buffalo Family Ontario Capo.
April 28, 2019, Lawrence Gannon – Tow truck driver killed during the tow truck wars in the GTA.
August 16, 2019, Paolo Caputo – Toronto resident and brother of Martino & Antonio Caputo. Killed in front of his restaurant. Message to Martino from CDS.
November 7, 2019, Antonio Fiorda – Killed in the parking lot of a shopping mall. Connected to the Commisso crime family. Was with Joseph Catroppa when he was killed. Nickname Scratch. (Member of Loner MC?)
March 2, 2020 George Barresi – Hamilton bookie and real estate agent. Musitano associate.
June, 2020, Michael Cudmore – Murdered in Mexico after fleeing Canada. Hitman in the Serrano & Musitano murders.
July 6, 2020, Grant Edward Norton – Musitano associate. Found in London, Ont. Police say there was no connection to Musitano murder.
July 10, 2020, Pat Musitano – Hamilton mob boss. Killed in Burlington, Ontario in a parking lot drive-by. Luppinos/Violis heard on tape saying Pat is a marked man.
September 27, 2020, Joseph Catroppa – Killed in Cancun, Mexico. Connected to Musitanos. Possibly killed by Wolfpack.
January 18, 2021, Giovanni Costa – Killed at his home after 2 masked men forced themselves in. Father of Michael Costa, who has OC connections. A Jordan Andall has been arrested.
December 23, 2021, Charles-Olivier Boucher-Savard – Hells Angels associate. Was charged for the attempted murder of Giuseppe Capobianco, a Luppino Family relative. Shot on Dec 22 and later died in hospital the next day.
?January 3, 2022, Giovanni Raimondi –? Cigarette trafficker Shot in downtown Toronto.

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2023.02.17 23:16 Nearby-Complaint Independence Pass John Doe Identified As Missing Skiier

https://www.leadvilleherald.com/free_content/article_e44a127e-ae3e-11ed-ac37-331aaaa88197.html
Marcia Martinek
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The Independence Pass John Doe has been identified. His name is Gardner Paul Smith.
Although the identification has answered a lot of questions about the man whose body was found on Independence Pass in 1970, other questions remain. Some may never be answered.
It’s been thought in recent years that DNA would be the only way this man would be identified, and indeed this turned out to be the case.
For Jeanne Smith Gaida, a realtor in Austin, Texas, the news came via a phone call from a cousin who carefully told Gaida that her father had been identified. As far as Gaida knew, her father had deserted the family shortly after her birth and had never been heard from again. Gaida was then contacted by Melissa Kramer, a forensic genealogy analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who provided her with a 2016 Herald Democrat article describing the story of the Independence Pass John Doe.
Gaida said she has spent 60 years wondering why her father disappeared “and being pissed off and on.” Her mother and other family members were reluctant to discuss her father with her. Yet the cartons of newspaper clippings that she acquired do tell a portion of the story.
Gardner Smith was born Sept. 22, 1930, the older son of Paul and Bernita Smith, and attended Modesto High School in California. The Smith family, which included Gardner Smith’s younger brother Armour, was a skiing family. The skiing industry, especially in the West, was just getting started after World War II. Paul Smith’s obituary in The Modesto Bee credits him with creating the ski resort Boreal Mountain California as well as being associated with several other businesses. It said he discovered skiing in 1936 during a trip to the Midwest and returned to Modesto to help charter the Modesto Ski Club. His obituary notes that he continued to ski throughout most of his life. A broken leg at age 74 during a 1973 ski trip to Vail only slowed him down briefly. He continued skiing 25 days a year. His wife was also a skier, and it was natural that the sport was introduced to their sons. Paul Smith lived to be 93 and his wife 88. Since the whereabouts of Garner Smith were still a mystery when they died, both of their obituaries list him as a survivor.
For Gardner Smith, skiing became his life. He attended the University of Nevada in Reno, skiing for the college team with some documented success. His daughter has one undated clipping which describes a win by the Nevada ski team at Edelweiss and says her father took first in the jumping, cross-country, and downhill events.
In June 1951, Gardner Smith joined the Army, serving two years of active duty and then transferring to the reserves where he served four more years. He was honorably discharged in June 1957. The Reno Gazette noted in 1959 that Smith had been training in Europe and in Aspen. In 1960, the newspaper said he was “sparring fires in Northern California” that summer and then freelance writing in Aspen about potential Winter Olympics athletes. Smith was described as the “former Mammoth and Nevada ski star.”
In the early 1960s, Gardner Smith was in Argentina where he met an Englishwoman, Jennifer Dawn Andrews. The two were wed and Smith brought his wife back to California where their daughter, Jeanne, was born on June 18, 1962. At that point, Smith disappeared. A divorce was obtained in 1968 and Gaida’s mother went on to marry Ernest M. Dillard, who died in 1974, leaving her a widow once again. Jennifer Dillard died on July 5, 1994.
As Gaida grew older she had questions about her father that her mother didn’t want to answer.
“She was not a nurturing person,” Gaida said. They lived in the Bay Area, but Gaida often went to Modesto by Greyhound bus to visit, and eventually live with, her father’s parents. She is not aware of any contact between her father and his parents after he disappeared from her life, although she admits it could have been possible and she wasn’t told.
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Probably some of the best clues to the person Gardner Smith was are found in an article titled “The Mystery of Gardner Smith” by Dick Dorworth in the December 1983 issue of Ski Magazine.
Dorworth, ski racer, coach, world record holder, and author of four books, describes Gardner as a ski racer and a free spirit, a maverick, a humanist, a pioneer, an explorer, and a natural foe of the status quo. He said that Garner’s ski results were respectable by any standards
“Competing against the world’s best skiers he won a Roche Cup, finished second in a U.S. National giant slalom, third in a Harriman Cup downhill, and fifth in a Harriman Cup slalom.”
Dorworth had several anecdotes about Smith, including the time Smith and a friend flew to Guatemala during the 1954 revolution and were jailed for a while. He said Smith had a favorite saying, used often: “Whatever’s right, friend.”
Smith’s skiing career was about a decade too early to actually make a living at professional skiing, Dorworth said in the article.
A decade younger than Smith, Dorworth describes the last time he saw Smith in 1968. Smith was living on the road at the time and attempting to market a ski pole grip that he had designed. Earlier he had designed a double lens goggle but never was able to market his inventions. Smith camped out on Dorworth’s couch for a week. He was said to be in bad physical shape, but his mind was sharp as ever. Dorworth never saw him again.
Gaida met up with Dorworth in Sun Valley in 2006 or 2008 and spent a day with him learning about her father. She emailed him this month with the news about his identification.
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It was on June 19, 1970, that two young men walking east from the summit of Independence Pass discovered the decomposed body of a white male lying in a ditch on the north side of the road about two miles from the top of the pass. It was partially covered with rocks that had fallen from the slope above. It’s now known this was Gardner Smith.
According to a story on June 22, 1970, Herald Democrat, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the body appeared to be that of a person in his early 20s (he was actually almost 40), 5’7” to 5’8” in height. The entire left arm and rib cage of the body was missing.
On July 15, 1970, a state highway maintenance man found the missing portion of the body below the road on the switchback where the body was found. Speculation was that the damage had been done postmortem by a snowplow.
July 17, 1970, Herald Democrat reported that the body part appeared to have been chewed by an animal. The shoulder and arm were only bone, but the hand and wrist still had flesh on them. The plans were to send them to the FBI so fingerprints could be taken. It is unknown if this ever happened.
The body was dressed in a tattered sweatshirt and grey trousers. Smith wore three pairs of socks and tennis or hiking shoes with an unworn sock over the left shoe. In his pockets were $7 and a razor. No identification was found, although the area was extensively searched by deputies and members of the sheriff’s posse.
Eventually, the Independence Pass John Doe was buried in Evergreen Cemetery with a metal marker saying “Unidentified Male, May 1970.” At the time of the burial, someone probably guessed that the man had been dead for a month or so, accounting for the May date.
The story could have ended here if it weren’t for John Piearson. The man who devoted many years cleaning up Evergreen Cemetery noticed the marker when he cleared out an overgrown section of the cemetery next to the Old Catholic section. Piearson, who died March 18, 2021, was a Vietnam veteran. He became curious about the identity of the unidentified man, thinking he might also be a Vietnam veteran.
Piearson contacted Audrey Simkins, then a crime/intelligence analyst with CBI. Simkins in turn contacted Silvia Pettem, who has experience in identifying John and Jane Does.
Pettem is the author of “Someone’s Daughter,” a book outlining her successful efforts in identifying a Jane Doe who was found murdered west of Boulder in April 1954, and “Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases.” In 2017 she published “The Long Term Missing,” which includes a brief section on the Independence Pass John Doe.
Pettem came to Leadville and met with Piearson in August 2011 to view the grave.
Records were never found
In April 2013, Simkins and Pettem returned to Leadville and discovered the records of the case could not be found. The two worked with then-coroner Shannon Kent to ensure that the facts of the case were entered in the NamUs database of missing and unidentified persons. The body was disinterred in 2013 and a fingerprint was obtained by the CBI. DNA was extracted from a femur and from the skull at the University of Northern Texas.
Smith’s body was supposed to be reinterred at Evergreen Cemetery after 2013. Instead, it remained in the Bailey-Kent Funeral Home until the facility was raided by the sheriff’s office in 2021. The sheriff’s office was investigating allegations against Kent and his wife. The coffin was actually reinterred in Evergreen Cemetery shortly after its 2021 discovery, according to Deputy Coroner Kaleb Yoder.
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Gaida, who is married with two children, hasn’t determined the next steps, but she hopes to have a small military funeral for her father and obtain a headstone. She hasn’t said if he will remain in Evergreen Cemetery.
She believes her father was homeless at the end of his life and was possibly experiencing some mental health issues. Pettem, who provided the Herald with some of the information used in this story, wonders if Smith was the victim of foul play. She thinks it’s possible that he was murdered and dumped along the Independence Pass road the fall before the body was discovered. Cold temperatures would have preserved his body to some extent. Smith’s familiarity with Colorado, especially Aspen, should have meant he wouldn’t try to cross the pass without adequate clothing. The fact that he was wearing a sock over one of his shoes remains puzzling.
Gaida still does not know why Gardner Smith walked away from her family shortly after her birth, although she now has a better understanding of the complicated man he was. She does know why, after all these years, her father never came back to find her.
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