On A Pale Horse

I attended EMU for a few years when they were the mighty Hurons before everyone started dumping the Native American mascots. My second year there I hooked up with this guy named Bob, let's just call him Booby for short, his roommates/suitemates were WAY into the Ouija board and we spent many a night getting inebriated and talking to the spirits….oooooooOOOOOHHHHHH
We were so blasted one night that we were able to get ‘Somnus’, the spirit, to take over J’s body to talk to us directly. The spirit told us that we had all known each other in previous lives and that we were all involved in one way or another with Detroit’s own Purple Gang running booze in the 1930’s. Ever since then I’ve been fascinated with organized crime and the Purple Gang specifically.

Albert ‘Caeser’ Tocco took over Chicago Heights Mob boss Al Pilotto’s Union and Outfit interested when Al passed away.

I found this one site detailing one of Mr. Tocco’s alleged exploits.

BETTY TOCCO maintains they were killed by her husband Albert,
Laborers’ officials Nick Guzzino and Dominick Palermo and a fourth Mob guy,
Albert “Chickie” Roviere. The Spilotros were brutally beaten nearly to death
with baseball bats, then thrown into a shallow grave off Route 41 in Northwest
Indiana, where they died as their assailants buried them. Then, Betty Tocco
says, the killers split up, leaving Albert Tocco without a getaway car.
Her husband called her from a phone booth about a mile from the farm field
where the Spilotros were buried. Then, almost before Tocco could ditch the dirty
blue work clothes that he wore for the killings and burial, the farmer who owned
the field found the grave and alerted police.

Although the Betty Tocco version of the Spilotro murders has become fairly well known in law
enforcement circles, no charges have ever been filed in connection with the deaths of the Spilotro brothers.

If this all sounds familiar to you that’s because the story was depicted in Martin Scorsces movie
Casino.

Mr. Tocco was sentenced in 1986 to a 200 year sentence for racketeering, extortion,
conspiracy and fraud.

Mr Tocco passed away September 21st after suffering a stroke. It's worth mentioning that three prominent Chicago city figures attened Mr. Toccos wake an alderman, a department head and a member of key city committee. All three officials admitted that they were there out of personal respect and no indication that their positions within the city were compromised.

1928 - September 21, 2005
RIP

Labels: 1928 births, 2005 September deaths, criminal, stroke

The world is full of eccentrics. My Grandma was one of those people. She would hoard away bread, cans of beans, matchbooks, and money in all sorts of odd places when they were still alive and living in Detroit (near Cadiuex Cafe). My family hardly visited her, not because we were mean or disrespectful, but because she was nuts. I have a real obsession with eye boogers that I directly attribute to her...when I would spend nights over her house she would come after me first thing in the morning with a wash cloth and get every piece of crusty snot out of the corner of my eyes - nothing else mattered - I was less then human if I had pieces of green stuff out of there....and heaven forbid if I got more during the day - that's when the kleenex, with a touch of spit, would make an appearance like it did when we were shopping at Eastland, right in front of the Hudsons entrance (you know the one next to Olga's).
Abe was an eccentric too but on a much grander scale. In 2000, at the tender age of 80, he was sent to prison for hiring someone to kill his business partner. Even prison couldn't hold him down. He gave jailhouse interviews and held had long rambling phone interviews with Howard Stern (where's Gilbert).
So long Mr. Hirschfeld, I wonder how much publicity your going to get in heaven.

1919 - August 9, 2005

Labels: 1919 births, 2005 August deaths, criminal, personality, undisclosed causes