Find A Grave - Organized Crime Figures

Abbandando, Frank b. July 11, 1910 d. February 19, 1942
Organized Crime Figure. Known as "The Dasher", he was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of Jewish and Italian street gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1930s. This gang, who came to be known in the news media as "Murder Inc.", carried out gangland murders in the New York City area under the direction of mob bosses Lepke Buchalter and [Read More]
Saint John Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 12, Plot P, Grave 75
Abbatemarco, Frank b. 1899 d. November 4, 1959
Organized Crime Figure. Known as "Frankie Shots", he was a Captain in the Profaci Crime Family (today the Family is called the Colombo Family). He had one of the largest bookmaking and loan sharking operations in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. He was shot and killed in a bar in Brooklyn, New York City, New York at age 59. (Bio by: Bill Heneage)
Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: St. Charles Terrace, Roadside
Accardo, Anthony b. April 28, 1906 d. May 22, 1992
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1906, he joined the city's organized crime family, the "Outfit," during the late 1920s. He served under three bosses (Alphonse Capone, Frank Nitti, and Paul Ricca), before becoming the boss himself. He expanded the Outfit's...[Read More] (Bio by: Joseph)
Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Mausoleum, Turn right, on lef hand side
Adonis, Joe (Guiseppe Antonio Doto) b. November 22, 1902 d. November 26, 1971
Organized Crime Figure. He was a close friend of mob boss Lucky Luciano and a member of his Mafia family in both Brooklyn, New York City, New York and New Jersey. He was deported to Italy in 1956 and died there of natural causes.
Cause of death: Natural causes
Madonna Cemetery, Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
Aiuppa, Joseph 'Doves' b. December 1, 1907 d. February 22, 1997
Organized Crime Figure. He was a long time power in the Chicago, Illinois Mafia syndicate known as "The Outfit". He began his criminal career as a muscleman and hired gun for Al Capone in 1935; by 1970 he had risen high in the Chicago mob. Though he controlled the mob's operations in Cicero and the western suburbs of Chicago, he was always a number two or three man in the hierarchy of the Outfit . His nominal boss during...[Read More] (Bio by: Joseph)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: Crucifix Garden, South Building, Tier 2, Crypt 7453
Alescio, Tony b. February 2, 1893 d. January 28, 1920
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Alcamo, Sicily, he was orphaned as a young child and immigrated to Detroit, Michigan in the spring of 1911. Escaping an abusive uncle, mob boss Antonino "Tony" Giannola took him in and treated him as one of his own. He grew to be Giannola's personal bodyguard, but during tough times he betrayed his benefactor and shot him dead in January 1919, touching off the Giannola-Vitale Gang War...[Read More] (Bio by: Dennis Rice)
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Plot: Section 52, Tier 11, Grave 331
Alo, Vincent 'Jimmy Blue Eyes' b. May 26, 1904 d. March 9, 2001
Organized Crime Figure. He was a long time Made-Member of the Genovese Organized Crime Family, going back as far as the days of Lucky Luciano. As a business associate and close friend of mob figure Meyer Lansky, they ran illegal gambling operations both in America and in pre-Castro Cuba. He died in Florida of natural causes at the age of 96.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 180-181, Arbutus Plot, Lot South 16933
Alterie, Louis b. August 2, 1886 d. July 18, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. He was a member of Chicago's West side gang under Dion O'Bannion. He is often credited with inventing the "one-way ride," taking Philadelphia gangster John Dougherty (alias Duffy) for a car ride in 1923, but the "honor" of creating the one-way ride goes to Earl "Hymie" Weiss. Louis Alterie did invent the ambush murder which involved renting an apartment close to the home or office of an intended victim and staging a surprise attack. He is also said to be the only...[Read More]
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Whispering Pines, L-912, grave 6 (unmarked) [unmarked]
Amberg, Herman 'Hyman' d. November 3, 1926
Organized Crime Figure. Along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Joseph Amberg, they were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1920s and 1930s. Hyman was arrested for the murder of a Brooklyn jeweler in 1926 and placed in the "Tombs" jail in Manhattan to await trial. On November 3, 1926, he and another prisoner (armed with guns) tried to escape from the jail. They got as far as the prison wall but were trapped by the guards...[Read More]
Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, Row 6R, Grave 53, Gate 82/S
Amberg, Joseph b. 1892 d. September 30, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. He along with his brothers Louis "Pretty" and Hyman Amberg were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1920s and 1930s On September 30,1935, Joseph Amberg and Morris Kessler (one of his henchmen) were lined-up against the wall of an auto repair garage in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and shot to death by three gunmen of "Murder, Inc".
Cause of death: Shot to death
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 97, between North 8th and 9th Streets
Amberg, Louis 'Amberg' b. 1897 d. October 23, 1935
Organized Crime Figure. During the 1920s and 1930s he, along with his brother Joseph, were the most feared gangsters in the Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. On October 23, 1935 (the same day gangster Dutch Schultz was murdered) Louis Amberg's body was found in a burning car in Brooklyn. He was killed with an ax and a shotgun blast, put in a car and set on fire. The murder contract was carried out by Abe Reles and his men in "Murder Inc".
Cause of death: Murdered
Montefiore Cemetery, Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 2, Row 12R, Grave 4
Anastasia (Anastasio), Albert (Umberto) b. February 26, 1902 d. October 25, 1957
Oragnized Crime Figure. He was part of "Murder Incorporated", a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board. Murder, Inc. was destroyed when Murder Inc., hitman Abe Reles turned informant in 1940. Anastasia went on to become head of the Gambino crime family in the 1950s. He...[Read More]
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 39, Lot 38325, Grave 182
Anastasio, Anthony 'Tough Tony' b. 1906 d. March 1, 1963
Organized Crime Figure. He was a powerful labor boss and racketeer on the Brooklyn waterfront. He was Vice-president of the International Longshoremen's Association and the head of local 1814 of the ILA in Brooklyn during the 1940s and 1950s. Brother of Mafia figures Albert and Frank Anastasia.
Cause of death: Heart attack
Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Anselmi, Albert b. July 15, 1883 d. May 8, 1929
Organized Crime Figure. Born in Marsala, Sicily in 1884, Albert Anselmi became involved with the Mafia early in his life. Escaping the relatives of one of his murder victims, he fled to America around 1912 and entered the country illegally through the Gulf Coast, eventually settling on "The Hill", the Italian community of St. Louis. By the beginning of Prohibition, Anselmi had moved on to Chicago, working for the six Genna brothers in Little Italy. Contrary to common belief, it was here that he...[Read More] (Bio by: Dennis Rice)
Cause of death: Murdered with a baseball bat by Al Capone.
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Armone, Joseph 'Joe Piney' b. September 13, 1917 d. February 23, 1992
Organized Crime Figure. A long time Captain in the Gambino Organized Crime Family, he was made Underboss of the Family by John Gotti after the murder of Frank DeCicco in 1986. He was then sent to federal prison late in 1987, after which Sammy (The Bull) Gravano took over as Underboss. Joseph Armone died in prison in 1992. (Bio by: Bill Heneage)
Cemetery of the Resurrection, Pleasant Plains, Richmond County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 6, Plot 130, Grave 9-10
Axler, Abe b. 1901 d. November 26, 1933
Organized Crime Figure. One of the most prominent members of Detroit's Purple Gang. He was born and raised in Williamburg, Brooklyn, along with future Purples like Eddie Fletcher, Irving Milberg, Sam Abramson, and Isadore Cantor. In the fall of 1921, Abe and his brother Simon were convicted on burglary charges and did 4 years in Sing Sing. By 1926 the two Axler brothers had joined their pals in Detroit, throwing themselves into the Cleaners and Dyers War. In March 1927 he, Eddie Fletcher, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Dennis Rice)
Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Badami, Stefano b. 1888 d. March 31, 1955
Organized Crime Figure. He was the first boss of what is now called the Decavalcante Organized Crime Family based in New Jersey. He ran the family until the 1930s, and was stabbed to death in a restaurant at 372 15th Avenue in Newark, New Jersey in 1955.
Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Barbara Sr., Joseph M. b. 1905 d. 1959
Organized Crime Figure. He is best known as the host of the notorious Apalachin Mafia Conference on November 14, 1957 which was raided by local authorities. The mafia never recovered from this because their secret society.
Cause of death: heart attack
Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City, Broome County, New York, USA
Battaglia, Sam b. June 30, 1908 d. January 8, 1973
Chicago Gangster. He was the middle of three brothers who dominated the Chicago mob for nearly four decades before falling from power. He broke into the mob after spending time with the street gang 42, founded by his brother Paul. Sam, a burglar and muscle man, was a huge, good looking youngster when he made headlines in 1930 by robbing Mayor William Hale Thompson's wife at gunpoint. He took over $15,000 in jewelry from her and the shield and gun police bodyguard and chauffeur, Officer Peter J...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot: St. Genevieve, QA Chapel, Tier 2, Crypt 1055
Bilotti, Thomas b. 1940 d. December 16, 1985
Paul Castellano's Underboss in the Gambino Family. Bilotti was Underboss for two short weeks from Dec. 2 until Dec.16,1985 when he and Paul Castellano were shot to death while exiting their car in front of Spark's Steakhouse in Manhattan. Their murders were ordered by John Gotti and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano.
Cause of death: Shot to death
Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Richmond County, New York, USA
Plot: Plot is to the right of the Mausoleum

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