The last godfather from the old generation was the wily Vincent Gigante, head of the Genovese family ... It wasn’t until 1997 that the government was able to get enough evidence to bring the head of the Genovese family to court. Mafia Empire – Vendetta
New York, 1957: One of the strangest careers in Mob history. Mafia Killers s1e5: Vicent Gigante The Oddfather, History 2019
‘He would mumble, look crazy, and look totally unaware of what was going on.’ ibid. Selwyn Rabb
Vincent Gigante was born in 1928 in Manhattan’s lower east side; he grew up in Greenwich Village in an almost exclusively American-Italian community. ibid.
He was mad, bad, but very clever and extremely dangerous. ibid.
He drifts into the cross-hairs of the FBI … playing the Crazy Man with the Feds. ibid.
Lombardo retires due to ill health and anoints the Chin as his successor. ibid.
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Boston, Massachusetts, VA Hospital, 1995: An emergency in Ward C – one of their patients was having a heart attack ... 66-year-old Stanley Jagodowski was dead. Crime Stories: Lethal Injector, CTV 2010
The number of deaths on Ward C had increased. ibid.
Kathy Rix decided to keep a close eye on the hospital’s supply of Epinephrine. ibid.
An alarming number of emergencies occurred when one particular nurse was on duty – she was 28-year-old Kristen Gilbert. ibid.
Kristen became physically abusive. ibid.
The victims they knew about may just be the tip of the iceberg. ibid.
Guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. ibid.
Kristen Gilbert was a bright, attractive, well-trained nurse who, in 2001, was found guilty of killing her patients at a Veterans Administration medical center in Northampton, Mass. What made this talented young woman turn to murder? Some believe it was for the thrill, other’s say it was so she could meet up with her boyfriend who also worked at the hospital ...
On February 15, an AIDS patient who was being treated with antibiotics suddenly passed out after Kristen had flushed his intravenous lines and the nurses on Ward C finally decided to report their suspicions. It did not take federal investigators long to figure out the common thread to many of the deaths occurring on Ward C, was Kristen Gilbert. In the seven years she worked at the VA Hospital, 350 deaths had occurred during her shift, statistically impossible to attribute to coincidence. About Crime online article
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Toxteth, Liverpool, Friday 13th March 1981: At 9.30 a.m. the manager of a betting shop on a busy high street was brutally murdered in broad daylight. The victim was 23-year-old John Suffield. British Injustice with Raphael Rowe II, History 2022
Honing in on two local men: 22-year-old Ray Gilbert and 24-year-old John Kamara. Despite there being no forensic evidence both men were quickly convicted and sentenced to Life in prison. ibid.
Merseyside Police investigated the murder of John Suffield in March 1981. Ray Gilbert and John Kamara were found guilty of murder. In 2000 the Court of Appeal found that the conviction of John Kamara could no longer be deemed safe and should be quashed. On the potential unfairness of the identification parade, the Court of Appeal concluded that they were left unpersuaded that Kamara stood out to any appreciable extent. ibid.
On March 12th 1981 there was an argument in the betting shop at Lodge Lane, Liverpool 8. It was enough to make the manager, a young man of 23 called John Suffield, fear for his life. Trial & Error: John Kamara, Channel 4 1997
John Suffield was to die that day. Though not at the hands of that angry customer. Two other men were convicted of his murder, one rightly so. The other has so far served sixteen years for a murder he did not commit. ibid.
The two men got away with less than £200 in notes and coins. ibid.
Raymond Gilbert confessed to the murder within hours of being taken to Admiral Street police station. He told the police he got angry with his victim, and that it was he, Gilbert, who was solely responsible for the fatal stabbing. ibid.
The man we do worry about is a man whose name Gilbert offered to the police as his supposed accomplice – Johnnie Kamara … He had also slept with Gilbert’s girlfriend – a fatal indiscretion. ibid.
As we began to excavate the Kamara case, whole areas of the prosecution would crumble at the touch. ibid.
The trial of Johnnie Kamara took place in front of an all-white jury just weeks after riots had reduced much of Toxteth to a smouldering ruin. ibid.
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Are serial killers born or made? Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan, ITV 2019
One summer in the early 1970s a couple moved into this trailer park on the east coast of Florida. Bernard Giles was just 20 … Giles was harbouring a deep compulsion to kill. ibid.
Bernard Giles has been in prison for 45 years … 5 life sentences for killing 5 young women. ibid.
‘The initial sexual imprinting was an act of violence against a girl … I became obsessed with this.’ ibid. Bernard
He terrorised an entire community. ibid.
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Eddie Gilfoyle: Another notorious murder case turned down by the CCRC. Eddie Gilfoyle spent 18 years inside and his case is one of the most bizarre in UK criminal history … ‘My brother has been convicted for a crime that didn’t happen.’ Panorama: Last Chance for Justice, BBC 2018
‘The prosecution’s case is that before Eddie went to work he asked his wife Paula into the garage. Somehow Eddie had persuaded Paula to write a suicide letter in her own handwriting and asked her to walk up the ladder, put a rope around her neck and without any struggle or intoxication allow herself to be hung.’ ibid. Eddie’s solicitor
Key evidence was not disclosed. ibid.
People who are going to commit suicide go to extraordinary lengths to ensure a death that’s neat, tidy, with no loose ends. Mind you, that could be said of murderers are well. Trial & Error: Eddie Gilfoyle, Channel 4 1996
On 4th June 1992 the body of Paula Gilfoyle was found in the garage of the home she shared with her husband Eddie … Paul was 33. She was also 8 and a half months pregnant. ibid.
‘Dear Eddie, I’ve decided to put an end to everything and in doing so ended a chapter in my life …’ ibid.
There were no signs of a struggle. ibid.
The Merseyside police investigation was so shoddy, idle and just plain wrong that they were themselves investigated by another police force … A Keystone comedy of errors. ibid.