The door opened, and an armed masked man wearing a prison guard-type uniform commanded the guard, Back up, or Ill blow your brains out. Burke and the armed man disappeared through the door and fled in an automobile parked nearby. Continuous investigation, however, had linked him with the gang. Rumors from the underworld pointed suspicion at several criminal gangs. From interviews with the five employees whom the criminals had confronted, it was learned that between five and seven robbers had entered the building. Ronald Kray was a British criminal involved in organized crime in the East End of London in the 1950s and 1960s. The loot was quickly unloaded, and Banfield sped away to hide the truck. Scottsboro Boys Trial, Scottsboro, AL (1931-1937)Nine young black men and boys, ages 12 to 19, stand accused of raping two young white women, 21-year-old Victoria Price and 17-year-old Ruby Bates, while traveling on a train through rural Alabama. There were recurring rumors that this hoodlum, Joseph Sylvester Banfield (pictured), had been right down there on the night of the crime. Also not becoming series were adaptations of old time radio programs like The First Nighter, The Witch's Tale and Mandrake the Magician. The roofs of buildings on Prince and Snow Hill Streets soon were alive with inconspicuous activity as the gang looked for the most advantageous sites from which to observe what transpired inside Brinks offices. During this operation, one of the employees had lost his glasses; they later could not be found on the Brinks premises. The body of Albert Anastasia - who ran Murder, Inc., a gang of hired killers for organized crime, in the late 1930s - lies on the barbershop floor at the Park Sheraton Hotel, Seventh Avenue and . A systematic check of current and past Brinks employees was undertaken; personnel of the three-story building housing the Brinks offices were questioned; inquiries were made concerning salesmen, messengers, and others who had called at Brinks and might know its physical layout as well as its operational procedures. He was certain he would be considered a strong suspect and wanted to begin establishing an alibi immediately.) Though he committed several rapes (18 are documented) around the Scarborough area between 1987 and 1990, he is most known for the torture and murder of 14-year old Leslie Mahaffy and 15-year old Kristen French . The other keys in their possession enabled them to proceed to the second floor where they took the five Brinks employees by surprise. ), (After serving his sentence, Fat John resumed a life of crime. Perhaps one of the most infamous serial killers in California, Charles Manson (and the cult he led) murdered actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends in her home at 1500 Cielo Drive in August of 1969. A few weeks later, OKeefe retrieved his share of the loot. Pino, Richardson, and Costa each took $20,000, and this was noted on a score sheet. July 14, 2017. But the state's history also includes notorious figures such as bank robber . The criminal explained that he was in the contracting business in Boston and that in late March or early April 1956, he stumbled upon a plastic bag containing this money while he was working on the foundation of a house. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter bluntly called . The names of Pino, McGinnis, Adolph Jazz Maffie, and Henry Baker were frequently mentioned in these rumors, and it was said that they had been with OKeefe on the Big Job.. All were guilty. Investigation established that this gun, together with another rusty revolver, had been found on February 4, 1950, by a group of boys who were playing on a sand bar at the edge of the Mystic River in Somerville. A decent crime/drama film Please read my full review dated February 11th, 2018 This is a list of films and/or television series that were released in the 1950's that are either based on real people who were murderers or serial killers, and/or actual events, or are made for television mini-series and/or thrillers that are stories of fiction all . The Bureau was convinced that it had identified the actual robbers, but evidence and witnesses had to be found. They were the first victims of the person who would become known as the Axeman of New Orleans. People regarded the police as a racially monolithic unit that did not reflect the true diversity of the U.S. He was not involved in the Brinks robbery. The money inside the cooler which was concealed in the wall of the Tremont Street office was wrapped in plastic and newspaper. (Burke was arrested by FBI agents at Folly Beach, South Carolina, on August 27, 1955, and he returned to New York to face murder charges which were outstanding against him there. Like the others, Banfield had been questioned concerning his activities on the night of January 17, 1950. Subsequently, OKeefe left his carand the $200,000in a garage on Blue Hill Avenue in Boston. More than 100 persons took the stand as witnesses for the prosecution and the defense during September 1956. Suge Knight, owner of Death Row Records. OKeefe was wounded in the wrist and chest, but again he managed to escape with his life. Another week passedand approximately 500 more citizens were consideredbefore the 14-member jury was assembled. I think a fellow just passed a counterfeit $10.00 bill on me, he told the officer. Race tracks and gambling establishments also were covered in the hope of finding some of the loot in circulation. As a protective measure, he was incarcerated in the Hampden County jail at Springfield, Massachusetts, rather than the Suffolk County jail in Boston. By the end of the decade, six of the ten places on the list remained filled by these elusive long-time fugitives, then still at large: 1950 #14 (ten years), Frederick J. Tenuto 1952 #36 (eight years), James Eddie Diggs 1954 #78 (six years), David Daniel Keegan 1956 #97 (four years), Eugene Francis Newman 1958 #107 (two years), Angelo Luigi Pero Among the cases covered by The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade are the "Preppy Murder," a public "rough sex" strangling committed in New York's Central Park; the "Cheerleader Murder," in which one teenage girl fatally stabbed a rival over high school popularity; and "The Yuppie Murder, " a 1989 Boston case wherein a well-to-do husband shot his Subsequently, this machine gun was identified as having been used in the attempt on OKeefes life. By fixing this time as close as possible to the minute at which the robbery was to begin, the robbers would have alibis to cover their activities up to the final moment. Harvey Miguel Robinson is one of the youngest serial killers in history, being just 18 when he was arrested and charged with the rape and murders of three people in Allentown: Joan Burghardt, a. At the time of the Brinks robbery, Geagan was on parole, having been released from prison in July 1943, after serving eight years of a lengthy sentence for armed robbery and assault. Underworld rumors alleged that Maffie and Henry Baker were high on OKeefes list because they had beaten him out of a large amount of money. When the robbers decided that they needed a truck, it was resolved that a new one must be stolen because a used truck might have distinguishing marks and possibly would not be in perfect running condition. The photo itself is bloody -- as is the bloody story associated with it. OKeefe had left his hotel at approximately 7:00 p.m. Pino and Baker separately decided to go out at 7:00 p.m. Costa started back to the motor terminal at about 7:00 p.m. Other principal suspects were not able to provide very convincing accounts of their activities that evening. Pedro Lopez. Neither Pino nor McGinnis was known to be the type of hoodlum who would undertake so potentially dangerous a crime without the best strong-arm support available. Three years later, almost to the day, these ten men, together with another criminal, were to be indicted by a state grand jury in Boston for the Brinks robbery. Both denied knowledge of the loot that had been recovered. During his brief stay in Boston, he was observed to contact other members of the robbery gang. Number of Victims: 8. Later, when he counted the money, he found that the suitcase contained $98,000. Then there's the photo of Joseph Rosen, gunned down in his candy store on September 13, 1936, in Brooklyn. The amusement arcade operator told the officer that he had followed the man who passed this $10.00 bill to a nearby tavern. They had brought no tools with them, however, and they were unsuccessful. He had been short changed $2,000. (On January 18, 1956, OKeefe had pleaded guilty to the armed robbery of Brinks.) As the robbers sped from the scene, a Brinks employee telephoned the Boston Police Department. When this case was continued until April 1, 1954, OKeefe was released on $1,500 bond. She was charged with murdering her nine-year-old daughter, two husbands, and a mother-in-law via arsenic poisoning in the late 1950s. By Ciara Nugent. Like Gusciora, OKeefe was known to have associated with Pino prior to the Brinks robbery. Lynette White was killed in February 1988 in Cardiff, after her throat was cut . (Geagan and Richardson, known associates of other members of the gang, were among the early suspects. The Boston underworld rumbled with reports that an automobile had pulled alongside OKeefes car in Dorchester, Massachusetts, during the early morning hours of June 5. Jazz Maffie was convicted of federal income tax evasion and began serving a nine-month sentence in the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut, in June 1954. Inside the building, the gang members carefully studied all available information concerning Brinks schedules and shipments. A slew of recognizable inmates have been received at Folsom Prison, from musicians, actors, record label execs, and even famous criminals. Paul Bernardo. After nearly three years of investigation, the government hoped that witnesses or participants who had remained mute for so long a period of time might find their tongues before the grand jury. At the time of his arrest, there also was a charge of armed robbery outstanding against him in Massachusetts. Henry Baker, another veteran criminal who was rumored to be kicking in to the Pennsylvania defense fund, had spent a number of years of his adult life in prison. None proved fruitful. At the Prison Colony, Baker was serving two concurrent terms of four to ten years, imposed in 1944 for breaking and entering and larceny and for possession of burglar tools. At the time of Bakers release in 1949, Pino was on hand to drive him back to Boston. This lead was pursued intensively. Approximately one and one-half hours later, Banfield returned with McGinnis. After each interview, FBI agents worked feverishly into the night checking all parts of his story which were subject to verification. McGinnis, who had not been at the scene on the night of the robbery, received a life sentence on each of eight indictments that charged him with being an accessory before the fact in connection with the Brinks robbery. In pursuing the underworld rumors concerning the principal suspects in the Brinks case, the FBI succeeded in identifying more probable members of the gang. James 'Big Jim' O'Leary. If Baker heard these rumors, he did not wait around very long to see whether they were true. This was a question which preyed heavily upon their minds. In the end, the perfect crime had a perfect endingfor everyone but the robbers. Thus, when he and Gusciora were taken into custody by state authorities during the latter part of January 1950, OKeefe got word to McGinnis to recover his car and the $200,000 that it contained. Their plan was to enter the Brinks building and take a truck containing payrolls. Returning to Pennsylvania in February 1954 to stand trial, OKeefe was found guilty of burglary by the state court in McKean County on March 4, 1954. Many problems and dangers were involved in such a robbery, and the plans never crystallized. OKeefes racketeer associate, who allegedly had assisted him in holding Costa for ransom and was present during the shooting scrape between OKeefe and Baker, disappeared on August 3, 1954. This was in their favor. He had been questioned concerning his whereabouts on January 17, 1950, and he was unable to provide any specific account of where he had been. Their success in evading arrest ended abruptly on May 16, 1956, when FBI agents raided the apartment in which they were hiding in Dorchester, Massachusetts. At the outset, very few facts were available to the investigators. Following the robbery, authorities attempted unsuccessfully to locate him at the hotel. After these plans were reviewed and found to be unhelpful, OKeefe and Gusciora returned them in the same manner. Underworld figures in Boston have generally speculated that the racketeer was killed because of his association with OKeefe. Pino had been questioned as to his whereabouts on the evening of January 17, 1950, and he provided a good alibi. Each man also was given a pistol and a Halloween-type mask. OKeefe and Gusciora had been close friends for many years. From what I can tell, the man speaking behi. He needed money for his defense against the charges in McKean County, and it was obvious that he had developed a bitter attitude toward a number of his close underworld associates. In the deportation fight that lasted more than two years, Pino won the final victory. All but Pino and Banfield stepped out and proceeded into the playground to await Costas signal. They were checked against serial numbers of bills known to have been included in the Brinks loot, and it was determined that the Boston criminal possessed part of the money that had been dragged away by the seven masked gunmen on January 17, 1950. The French queen's most famous scandal is the affair of the diamond necklace, an outrageous fraud perpetrated by jewel thieves using her name, but a previous incident was perhaps even more damaging to the royal prestige. There were the rope and adhesive tape used to bind and gag the employees and a chauffeurs cap that one of the robbers had left at the crime scene. 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