"As leaders of this community, you should be smarter than promoting such a group as this, who uses race to foment chaos to destabilize the nation.". [14], Pizzonia offered an unusual alibi for December 24, 1992. But to mess with an old guys rug meant all-out war! A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Virginia Vital Records State Department of Health or the County Clerk's office of the county . 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", 9 - Marzulli "Update on Bonnie & Clod"; Marzulli, "Cops: Yule slay a mob job"; Capeci, Jerry, "2 didn't get it straight," New York Daily News, Jan. 12, 1993, p. 3; Brick, Michael, "Mobster guilty of racketeering, but not murder," New York Times, May 12, 2007, p. B1; Rashbaum, "Couple's killing in 1992"; Lee, "Reputed Gambino figure sentenced". More than two centuries later, this vision is thriving. Media reports give different sites. Virginia Thomas, a conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn. Music runs all through my narrative, Crowell said. As Michael Brick in The New York Times reported: Standing before a board of photographs depicting the Gambino family by rank, Ms. Petersen created a detailed narrative from contradictory testimony about the distant past. As a result, mafia families put out an "open contract" to kill the couple. He was convicted of attempted burglary and sent to prison in the summer of 1989. Even the government is uncertain. The Uvas were an especially attractive target because of the way they had violated and humiliated the made men. Thomas Uva got out of prison in May 1992 at the age of 28. Sue . That adds insult to injury.. I remember, long ago, I would stop in a cafeteria in New York City and I would have oatmeal, toast and coffee for 30 cents. Back-up evidence came from FBI authorities who claimed Gotti Junior had received confirmation from Gotti Senior, incarcerated for life in prison, to go ahead and eliminate the Uvas. Crowells move toward chemistry carried him through interesting times, including, he said, work on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret U.S. government project to develop an atomic bomb during World War II. These cameras also recorded the final days of Thomass life. A regular Bonnie and Clyde, as the media came to call them, hitting the streets of New York, picking as their targets, groups of men who no one in their right mind would even contemplate as potential victims. They have pleaded not guilty. I do read a little, he said. There, on April 12, while sitting for a portrait, he collapsed and died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The 63 year old, gray haired man, unable to read or write, pleaded not guilty and was remanded without bail. Because of the nature of the events that followed over the next six months, it has never been established just how many of these social clubs the duo hit in their short and presumably rewarding, although predictably hazardous exercise in armed robbery. 17 - Inmate Locator, bop.gov/inmateloc, accessed Dec. 23, 2018. Responding cops find the lifeless bodies of Tommy and Rosemarie Uva in the Topaz. Autopsies are performed between 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:00 a.m.to 12:00 noon on Saturdays. 1620, , Wales d. 12 Nov 1695, Chickahominy Riv, Virginia (Age 75 years) 2. He is also known as Thomas Tinsley of Totopotomoy Creek. Thomas may have had issues over the fact that the business was entrusted to another brother after the death of the elder Uva. P.O. I thought maybe that power might be used for Army trucks. Maybe the woman is bobbing with excitement, looking forward to their day of last-minute Christmas shopping. Their bodies were discovered moments later when the car rolled through the intersection, collided with an oncoming vehicle, and came to rest against the front curb of nearby residence. The more the police investigated the Uvas the more they realized they were dealing with a conundrum. [12], On the morning of September 22, 2005, Pizzonia, sixty-three, was arrested for the killings. His death is a cause for great sadness in the University community. The Manhattan Project, of course, was secret and so we didnt talk about it. Thomas is accused of sexually assaulting her own son before his death in 2019. Doctor Calls Near-Death Experience a 'Miracle'. I have this Thomas death recorded as 5 Oct 1729 will probated June 1730, Henrico Co., VA. Range. In the same year that Thomas and Rosemarie married, Thomas's father accidentally shot himself and died of his wound. There is a fantastic book called Tough Guy, The true story of crazy Eddie Maloney by William Hoffman it describes this guy"s life as a stick up guy and his kidnapping of wiseguy"s, Frank the Wop being a Gambino capo that he and Richie Chaisson[ deceased], Chief Schurmann and host of other mob connected guys were in on kidnapping and getting 100 large ransom. This ordinary, working class couple seemed unlikely candidates as the most brazen robbers the city had experienced since the infamous Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport in 1978. Former Bonanno family underboss Sal Vitale said that he and Joseph Massino had a conversation with John Gotti Jr. who told them, "we took care of it". Thomas Crowell gives credit to diet and exercise for his longevity. To mark his passing, UVA Today is publishing his story again. Her political activism has caused controversy for years.. Actor Andy Garcia appears as an underworld boss named "Big Al,"" and Ray Romano plays reporter "Jerry Cardozo.". Music runs all through my narrative, he said. Carrying an Uzi submachine gun, Thomas entered the clubs, demanded that everyone inside turn over cash and jewelry and then insisted that they all drop their pants. For more of my other articles check out myMob Corner at Gangsters Inc. You need to be a member of Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org to add comments! This case needed a more factual approach and the podcast Tom Brown's Body does that.. due to the podcast , which contain FAR MORE information than the articles and has far less information skewing, I think suicide. Four years later, a young, married couple in New York, wrote their own page into criminal lore by imprinting a special stamp on the phenomenon and became the first people to commit suicide by mob. Crowell, who used to sneak into Minor Hall to play four-hand piano with his future wife, still practices the piano regularly. The story of Thomas and Rosemarie Uva was the subject of a motion picture, Rob the Mob, released in spring 2014. Beth resolved to find out if her son had telephoned 911 for help on the day he died. Trucchio was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. A maroon, four door, Mercury Topaz slows to a halt at traffic lights in Ozone Park, a suburb in Queens, New York. The boy was rushed to Long Island Community Hospital, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. (434) 924-7291, /content/thomas-crowell-and-living-life-its-fullest, 2023 By The Rector And Visitors Of The [8]. There are no additional details at this time on whether the two individuals knew each other. After the death of her father, a security guard who worked at a federal building in Manhattan, Rosemarie became a wild child, according to her family. [1]. 1 - Hunter-Hodge, Karen, and John Marzulli, "Couple slain in auto at Queens crossing," New York Daily News, Dec. 25, 1992, p. 23. It's a book you can't put down once you pick up. Law enforcement believed as low as six and as high as ten. Roosevelt's passing stunned the world. There was a rumor that they were working on a bomb, which was true, but bombs were being dropped every day in England and I thought the point was to release large amounts of power, which was an understatement. Its scary, you know, of course. [CDATA[ Early morning Thursday, Christmas Eve, 1992. Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, on his father's plantation of Shadwell located along the Rivanna River in the Piedmont region of central Virginia at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He wears his hiking boots constantly even to church, he said. Crowell, a retired University of Virginia chemistry professor, turned 100 years old on July 9 at a party surrounded by members of his extended family. Investigators suspected that Dominick Pizzonia, Ronald "Ronnie One Arm" Trucchio and an unnamed driver were involved in the Christmas Eve 1992 shootings. His primary function for the Gambino family was control of Local 23 of The Mason Tenders union which manages the affairs of building laborers. They were married shortly after her release in 1987. Murder victim Thomas Uva may have robbed Mafia social clubs by night, but he took time off from his day job to support Dapper Don John Gotti at trial. She told the detectives that Thomas's daughter from a . Three slugs struck twenty-eight-year-old Thomas in the head. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the robbers were picking social clubs run by the Gambino,Bonanno and possibly theColombo crime families in Brooklyn, Queens and the Little Italy area of Lower Manhattan. I get a kick out of it, even with my fingers hurting and starting to not do what I want. On December 27, with federal prosecutors indicating that there would be a delay before the case was brought into court, Pizzonia was released on $3 million bond and confined to his home. Outside cases are those in which the patient has never been admitted to or seen as a patient in the University of Virginia Health System. Davidson County Death Records 1900-1913. They needed those boron compounds as part of the whole project, Crowell said. Before his death in 1967, her grandfather had fulfilled his goal and become a Baptist minister in Washington, D.C. Johnson-Thomas followed in his footsteps and is a Baptist minister, too. A surgical consent form cannot be substituted. He was a first-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences. In the end, after a five-week trial, the jury found Pizzonia not guilty of murder, but guilty of conspiracy and racketeering and the judge, on September 5th 2007, sentenced him to a maximum of fifteen years in prison. To Tommy's parents, a terrifying picture of his last hours had begun to emerge. The cold-blooded killing of the Uvas remained unsolved for thirteen years, and then on September 22nd 2005, the NYPD and the FBI arrested and indicted a man for criminal conspiracy, and racketeering-related crimes including as a predicate act, the double murder. "He's a very good cook." In their apartment a few blocks away, is another wallet with a slip of paper that will open a whole can of worms in due course. All have worked throughout the late night and into the early morning and they continue to work on this investigation. [10]. Thomas Uva, 1934 - 2016 Thomas Uva was born in 1934, at birth place, Massachusetts, to Aurelio Uva and Natalina Uva. The county deaths index covers years 1853-1970. Apr 13, 2007 at 4:00 am. May 24, 2008 -- Velma Thomas' heart stopped beating three times -- and her doctors thought she . Crowell keeps busy with his daily routines of exercise and music, because staying active keeps him young. Who did the hit? According to police, authorities arrived at the scene to find that Stephens' apartment door had been forced open. The prosecution used a completely different brush to show a hardened criminal; a member of a vicious gang of loan sharks, bookies, extortionists and murderers. (Photos by Dan Addison, University Communications). After he came to UVA, he met and married a nursing student, Mary M. Wheat, and they shared a life and a love of music. Maybe in some strange, indecipherable way, they felt dirty and wanted to wash themselves clean with excitement, the sweetest soap available. It was our trophy.. Virginia obituaries and death notices, 1985 to 2023. 7 - New York City Birth Index, Ancestry.com; Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com; Marzulli, John, "Cops: Yule slay a mob job," New York Daily News, Jan. 7, 1993, p. 11; Marzulli, "Update on Bonnie & Clod"; Hunter-Hodge and Marzulli, "Couple slain", 8 - Marzulli, "Cops: Yule slay a mob job. But chemistry had a tactile lure than mathematics lacked. If you have an unexpected result, dont throw it away, because probably there is some clue there. Thomas Uva passed away at age 76 years old in October 1980. Their modus operandi was the same in every robbery they committed. In the same year that Thomas and Rosemarie married, Thomas's father accidentally shot himself and died of his wound. Thomas, a lawyer who runs a small political-lobbying firm, Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups. A number of Mafia informants appeared as witnesses for the prosecution. Thomas Uva was born May 17, 1964, to Anthony and Fannie Accomando Uva of the Bronx. Traffic was heavy - holiday motorists mixed with the usual Thursday morning rush-hour congestion. [4], Christmas 1992 became a period of mourning for the Uva and DeToma families. Within two weeks of the double slaying, police from the 106th Precinct investigating the crime, began to receive hints from street informants that the couple had been earmarked for death by the mob in retaliation for robbing their social clubs. Then Crowell shifted from the library to the laboratory, this one at Havemeyer Hall at Columbia University. Stonewall Jackson was born Thomas Jonathan Jackson on January 21, 1824, in Clarksburg (then Virginia), West Virginia. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Ever since his untimely death at 17, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) has been one of England's most fascinating literary figures. I have his father as William whose will 1 Feb 1678 probated 20 April 1678 Henrico Co, VA Witnesses Richard Lygon, Ann Stuart. Tom Farrell, who led Dominion Energy for more than a decade and was a powerful force in Virginia business and politics, died Friday, one day after stepping down from his post as the company's . 911 was alerted of the accident and the student was transported to the University of Virginia Hospital emergency department. According to testimony from Vitale, Gotti Junior had informed Bonanno leader Joe Massino that the rumors going around indicating Bonanno soldiers Anthony Donato and Vincent Baciano had murdered the Uvas were untrue and that they, the Gambinos, claimed the hit as theirs. There is a longstanding rule in the New York Mafia that calls for prospective wiseguys to be vetted by the other families before being inducted. His father had a florist shop there on East Tremont Avenue. [1] His father, a lawyer named Jonathan Jackson, and his mother, Julia Beckwith . Not only was the club attacked twice by Bonnie and Clyde, four years before, in 1988, Pizzonia and an associate Alfred Freddie Hot DiConiglio, had allegedly shot dead a family associate in the back garden and then arranging for the corpse to be taken out on a boat and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. Rosemarie managed to escape the mobsters, but not before they jotted down the license number of her car. Tommy would rush in with an Uzi in one hand and an empty collection bag in the other. In my opinion the book I mentioned in my last post "The Westies" was a great read.Just saying. Their story has been fictionalized in the 2014 film Rob the Mob and the 2015 film The Wannabe. I play miserably, but without much vision, I have memorized a couple of the preludes and fugues for Bachs The Well-Tempered Klavier. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Later, when asked why Thomas was falling, Michael Valva allegedly says, Because hes cold. Because it would be both profoundly humiliating and a violation of the gangland code, the victims never reported these robberies. . Thomas would be dead hours later. . At the conference he met Bob Lutz, who taught organic chemistry at UVA. Uva also targeted two unnamed clubs on Bath Avenue in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. (In one robbery, Tommy made his elderly Italian victims strip to their underwear.) It was said that the couple robbed at least four and as many as ten mob clubs. Federal authorities were in possession of an recorded conversation from Ray Brook Federal Prison, located near Lake Placid in New York State. Thomas Tinsley Birth: 1638 St Peter's Parish (now Talleysville), New Kent, Virginia Death: 22 Feb 1715/16 St Anne's Parish, Essex County, Virginia Father: Thomas Tinsley (1618-1702) Mother: Elizabeth Randolph (1613-1702) Marriage & Family Spouse (1): Grace Pierce (1630-1683) Marriage: abt 1649 Receive obituaries . ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - A man has been charged in an execution-style shooting captured on camera in downtown St. Louis Monday morning, KMOV reports. Within days, statements from informants were sewn together into a more complete picture of the Uvas' foolhardy criminal enterprise. They died instantly. I would climb up on the masonry of the great big window of Minor Hall, push the window open and climb in. My job at first was to do a lot of work with that compound. Before leaving their apartment at Eighty-Third Street in Ozone Park, Queens, Rosemarie spoke briefly on the telephone with her sixty-one-year-old mother-in-law, Fannie Accomando Uva of the Bronx. His name: Dominick Pizzonia (right) known by his friends in his social club as Skinny Dom. 113 people executed in Virginia since 1982. They left their Ozone Park home and got into their car. 15 - Marzulli, John, "Skinny Dom gets unlikely alibi from moll's mom," New York Daily News, May 8, 2007. Copyright 2023 KMOV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Services, Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center Laboratory, Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics - Infectious Diseases, Specimen Management and Referral Testing Services, University of Virginia Medical Laboratories Reflex Testing and Procedure Chart. Name index of West Virginia statewide and county death records. What he enjoyed less were the academic politics, people angling for positions and seeking favors. Dont neglect small clues and watch for unexpected results.. She is thirty-one, three years older than her husband. Testimony revealed that, not only had the Gambino and Bonanno clans competed to be the first to find and murder the Uvas, they had also disputed for some time the identity of the Uvas' killers. Thomas knew a lot of Mafiosi from his neighbourhood and the nearby Country Club section, said another source. Someone even came to my home one evening to try and get his person promoted, Crowell said. [17]. University of Virginia Police began an immediate investigation and also contacted the Office of the Dean of Students so that deans could begin their work of contacting family and friends. Witnesses told police there was an altercation outside of the Shell gas station across the street that took place before the shooting. Officials deemed it a suicide, but his parents believe he was murdered. Terms of Service, 2023Gangsters Inc. - www.gangstersinc.org Hellman, 26, and Kayla Nicole Thomas, also 26, face an array of charges tied to the Jan. 13 death of Thomas' 2-year-old son, Steven Dale Meek II, and to investigators' discovery of a sexually . Not long after his father's death, Thomas was convicted of attempted burglary and served nearly three years. According to prosecution witness DiLeonardo, Pizzonia had talked to him and John Gotti Junior outside the Caf Liberty Social Club. The statewide death index covers years 1917-1956 and includes all 55 West Virginia counties. Crowell, who retired in 1984, increased the departments research and appointed new faculty members in physical chemistry. You dont mess with a wise guys hair. When she worked at Dr. Pol's clinic, she was always on-call, primarily due to large-animal emergencies. Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1721-1920. The student who died is Thomas (Tom) W. Gilliam IV. Real Name: Thomas Calvin Burkett Nicknames: Tommy Location: Herndon, Virginia Date: December 1, 1991 Case Details: Tommy Burkett was a student at Marymount College in 1991, but on Thanksgiving weekend, he was found dead in his parents' Virginia home. Churchill later described learning of FDR's death as comparable to having "been struck a physical blow." Stalin, too, was distressed to learn . Their investigations created a significant amount of confusion and concern in the underworld of the New York Mafia, a swirling of enquiries that disjointed lives and business, but hard as they tried, the investigators were unable to pin down the names of the gunmen. Powered by. Sometimes, again to use Ribot's terms, a man can suffer from an excess rather than a defect of impulsion, and appears to himself compelled to commit some awful crime or pointless folly, or to act in some way against his practical judgment, governed by the constraint of a desire or notion which he feels hard to resist. Most recent obituaries in Fairfax, Virginia. City criminal prosecution lawyers believed at least four clubs were targeted, although the number may have been much higher. Making guys embarrass themselves by leaving them half-naked was off the wall. He lived in 1940, at address, Massachusetts. The couple had reportedly earned the wrath of Mafia chieftains by spending the summer and fall of 1992 conducting brazen stickups at Mafia "social clubs" in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. You get concerned about whats going to happen to anybody else, business owner Syed Sajid said. Not a reliable enough source, imo. Pizzonia defense counsel Joseph Corozzo argued that the jury should give little weight to ex-Mafia witnesses providing information against former friends and associates in exchange for prosecutor favors. At this time, we do not believe that either foul play or alcohol were involved. It captured visitor John A. also recorded the final days of Thomass life. The Autopsy Service is charged with providing timely and accurate postmortem examinations for the benefit of patients' families, the institution, the attending physicians and house staff. Thomas W. "Tom" Gilliam IV, a first-year student, died after helping a handful of students enter the locked Physics Building and get up onto the roof Sunday night. In 1986, she was convicted of attempted robbery and served fifteen months in state prison. CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - We now know when a Christiansburg woman will be in court, facing multiple charges in. Criminals in the league of the Mafia rarely, if ever, seek police assistance to sort out their problems, so official records are more likely to err on the conservative side. He left the house where he had killed them, walked into a neighborhood bank in Rochester, New York, thus beginning a three plus hour stand-off ending when he deliberately murdered a young, female bank teller, and then stood openly in front of a bank window, knowing police snipers were zeroing in on him. Members of some New York crime families understood the reason, but they weren't yet talking about it. The trial took on an essence of unreality when it was disclosed that both the Bonanno and the Gambino crime families were arguing over who did the killings. But her ties to Jan. 6 have raised questions about her husband's role on the Supreme Court. The club members, hindered by their state of dishabille, would be unable to get to the club door in time to witness the car and plate number. "My son didn't want her buried with him (Thomas), what can I tell you? said Rosemaries mother when questioned by a reporter. All rights reserved. His "Rowley Poems" pseudo-medieval poetry presented as the work of a 15th-century priestis one of the most famous of all literary hoaxes. Hawaiian Moonlighters was reportedly opened by Joseph "Joe Butch" Corrao after the Ravenite Social Club, a few blocks north at 247 Mulberry, was seized by federal officials following the conviction of Gambino boss John J. Gotti. University Of Virginia, UVA Mourns Loss of Terry Holland, An Amazing Man With a Historic Legacy, In a Historic Application Year, UVA Offers Entry to Nearly 6,000 in Early Action Cycle, UVA Leverages $100 Million Gift To Launch Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology To Transform Health Care, Student Spotlight: Meet Fourth-Year Student Artist Uzo Njoku, Tina Fey Returning to UVA for Presidents Speaker Series for the Arts, UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, Faculty Spotlight: John Owen Welcomes Healthy Debate About A Contentious World In His Classroom. Maybe deep down, he and his wife were more interested in the present than the future. Get alerts . [3], At that moment, police, press and public had no idea why the young couple had been killed. When I practice, I can play better.. These two had to have had a death wish.There's no way they did not know they were hitting wiseguys joints.Not even Bonnie and Clyde were that nuts.I have to believe they just said the hell with it and prayed for the best.In regards to Mr.Porters post about the Irish guys, are you refering to the Westies? Virginia Indexes from the Library of Virginia (free to search) Death Index of Virginia, July 1, 1853-1896 for 34 Virginia cities and counties; coverage may vary. Hundreds of places dotted across the metropolitan area of the biggest city in America, like waiting stations on a railway line to crime, where mobsters could stop off and refresh themselves before continuing their journeys. Copyright , Thomas P. Hunt, Whiting, VT 05778All Rights Reserved. "Junior" Gotti telling an inmate about the killings of the Uvas and mentioning an earlier Uva-centered discussion he had in Manhattan with his imprisoned father, Gambino boss John J. Gotti. 11 - Marzulli, John, "Jr.'s new troubles," New York Daily News, Sept. 23, 2005, p. 19. They were so plain and nondescript they could have existed as shadings in a sepia photograph of shadows. And he is trying to broaden his grasp of languages, having studied Spanish and reading some in French and German. At least two of the social clubs belonged to senior capi or crew bosses in theGambino crime family and a third Gambino linked spot, Caf Liberty, which was robbed by the Uvas twice, was also the scene of a particularly brutal inter-family mob killing. But he wasn't skilled at honest work. In a 1997 search of the basement of a property owned by John Gotti Junior, son of the family boss, the FBI found a typed list of the names of the "made" members of his organization, as well as $348,700 in cash, a list of the guests who attended his wedding, along with the dollar amount of their wedding gifts (totalling more than $350,000), and two handguns. Virginia Thomas passed away on February 27, 2023 in Rome, New York. He was arraigned at Brooklyn Federal Court that afternoon. Ex-cop on trial for son's murder. While he focused on chemistry as an undergraduate at Harvard University and later as a graduate student at Columbia University, Crowell also kept his hand in mathematics. Crowells life was not limited to chemistry. While Crowell enjoyed playing with the orchestra, his studies suffered because of it, though he was still able to graduate cum laude from Harvard and take a job with the Manhattan Project. On the witness stand at the trial in the Brooklyn District Court, of their alleged killers, he described the pair as Mafia groupies who had at one time asked for days off to attend the trial of the Gambino boss John Gotti in 1992. This may well have been the proverbial straw breaking the camels back. Information about the two shooting victims gradually reached the authorities and the media. Victim precipitated homicide or as it became known suicide by cop, (SbC) has been around as an expression since June 1981 when 38-year-old William Griffin murdered his parents. In a Department of Justice, Eastern District media release on the arrest of the man accused of the killings, September 23rd, 2005, it states the car was waiting at the corner of Woodhaven Boulevard and 103rd Avenue. The years go by, and unless you plan your time, time just passes, Crowell said. 1 -- he was born before 1657 to MAJOR WILLIAM HARRIS (1629-1678) and 2nd wife LUCY STEWART of Henrico. The prosecution claimed the two hit men as Dominick Pizzonia and Ronald Trucchio (right), both made men in the Gambino Crime Family. Funerals occurred immediately after the holiday. I got very tired of that. Trucchio, who since 1992 had pleaded guilty to New York State racketeering offenses and had been convicted of additional federal offenses, was already serving a lengthy prison sentence. Thomas Tinsley II was a Virginia colonist. Great story!.I thought I'd heard of these two before,but just in passing w/o details.That was beyond crazy,robbing wiseguys.Kinda' reminded me of the old movie "Seven Ups" where the two hoods were kidnapping them for ransom,which I suspect was actually taken from the 1970s kidnapping of Family members by the Irish guys.Of course,as you know,that resulted in John Gotti Sr. making his bones in the murder of one in a bar. , 2018 Liberty Consulting, has become a prominent member of various hard-line groups over. 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