A Few Days in New Orleans
May 5 1890 A group of men employed by Charles Matranga as stevedores are ambushed at the intersection of Esplanade and Claiborne Ave’s. The men…
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Where New Orleans Buries it’s Dead Mobsters: Greenwood Cemetery
One of the first things I did when Craig and Casey were kind enough to offer me a bit of space on NCS, was to…
Carlos Marcello’s “Spectacular Debut as a Criminal”
If you’re anything like me you probably always figured that the guys writing these books on the Mafia that we all enjoy, really know their…
The Good, The Bad and the Really Bad: The Colonel
The Colonel On March 20 1953 I told the papers that slot machine stamps would not be issued for 1954. Soon thereafter I had a…
The Good, The Bad and the Really Bad: Death of a Special Officer
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The Murders of Stroncone, Masotto and Siracusa
On July 29 1942 at around 6:30 AM a woman’s body was discovered on the side of the road near Tucker’s Corner in upstate New…
Marcello Gumbo and a Big Easy Lagniappe
A mixture of New Orleans and Marcello stories, factoids, rumors and sayings. Everyone knows that Mosca’s Restaurant was Carlos’s favorite place to eat. It became…
The Death of New Orleans First Godfather (Part 2)
When we last left New Orleans it was April 1st 1869 and New Orleans first Godfather, Raffaele Agnello, had been shot down on Toulouse Street…