Violent Times – The Detroit Mob’s ’85 Hit Parade
The mid-1980s were a tumultuous and violent time for traditional Italian organized crime in America as a whole, highlighted by...
Mob Hits
The Last Purple – Harry Millman
By Paul Kavieff w/ contributions from Scott M. Burnstein: THERE was little evidence in Harry Millman’s childhood that he would...
Prohibition & The Detroit Underworld
In 1927 Detroit, Michigan was the fourth largest city in the United States with a population of more than 1.5...
The Ides of March – Chicken Man Goes Boom
“Well they blew up the Chicken Man last night, they blew up his house too,”– opening line to Bruce Springsteen’s...
The Detroit Drug Wars (Part 2)
Unlike the Buttrum brothers and their Pony Down crew who looked to challenge top dog YBI at every opportunity or...
