 Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm Scott Bernstein. Happy Thanksgiving week. And today for a quick hitter, I'm going to give you my top Thanksgiving week mob murders of all time. I'm sure there's some I'll miss. So feel free to chime in on the comments and let me know if you have any great Thanksgiving week gangland slains that we should talk about and give insight into. Please like, subscribe, share. The OG pilot, everyone, know what we're doing here at the original gangsters podcast and spread the word. So I'm going to start with a couple of mob murders that actually happened on Thanksgiving day. We'll start in Chicago. 2001, Cicero mob Lieutenant Anthony Tony the Hatchet Chair in Monty is murdered in the vestibule of a Browns fried chicken restaurant. It was after most people had had their Thanksgiving meal. He was meeting was supposed to meet someone there and he was murdered by a hit team. We know who the hit team was. Bobby Cooper was the driver and tough Tony Calabrese was the shooter. Bobby Cooper flipped. Tough Tony Calabrese died in prison a couple years ago doing a big prison sentence for extortion and arm robbery, I believe. But sheer Monty had there was an issue in regime change. Sheer Monty had gone to prison in the early 90s with Jimmy Marcelo and Sam Carlisi and all those guys and there had been, you know, new powers that it took over Cicero. And when sheer Monty got a prison, he started to butt heads with those guys. Marcelo wasn't coming out for another two years at that point. And it looked like there was a doesn't look like there was an altercation the week before sheer Monty's murder. He met at a thing with a pancake house with Jimmy Marcelo's brother Mickey and Frank the German twice and was told to I think calm down and stop making threats to people that he shouldn't have been. There was a verbal altercation that erupted in the restaurant and then outside the restaurant a physical altercation where Tony chair Monty pushed Frank the German twice a week later he was dead. So that's in Chicago. Another thing that happened on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit back in the 1930s. My hometown 1937 Thanksgiving evening. Harry Milman, who was one of the top hit men for the Jewish purple gang went to Bolesky's deli for a Thanksgiving evening toast with his bodyguards. And he had been feuding with the Italian mafia for a couple years at that point. And the Italians outsourced the murder to New York and the murder incorporated group who were the you know the most vicious killers in New York City and in the early to mid 20th century and they came into Detroit just for about an hour came into the train station. They were taken to Buesky's deli. They gunned down Harry Milman and then got back on a train and were in New York by the next day. So it was very high profile at the time kind of the last of the purple gang. At that point the purple gang ceased to exist. Harry Milman was having a difficult time taking orders from Italians and pay the ultimate price. Moving over to Boston for a second couldn't you know couldn't talk about Thanksgiving week murders without you know Boston's favorite mob serial killer whitey bulger. He killed two people on Thanksgiving week 1975. One of those murders was depicted in the movie Black Mass with Johnny Depp. That was the Tommy King murder. King had insulted. He was a member of Whitey Holder's winner whitey bulgers winter hill gang and hung out at his at his bar and had insulted bulger. Bulger killed Tommy King and then a couple hours later he killed a guy named Buddy Leonard. So he was busy on Thanksgiving 1975 whitey bulger and his demented self. Going over to New York and then a little bit in Canada. New York Mafia Don who was deported to Canada, Salvatore, Montaigne salva iron worker ran the Bananos on the street for four or five years and then was deported to Canada. He lasted about two years in Canada tried to take over the Mafia in Canada. He was killed Thanksgiving week 2011 in a power struggle within a power struggle. He's a fascinating character. I would you know if you want to learn more about and please go ahead because there's a lot to learn. Go check out all the great books that have been written on the Canadian Mafia war and then Anthony Stefano and guys that have written about the Bananos. Finishing up Thanksgiving week 1973 in Rochester a murder that really decimated the entire Rochester Mafia. It took about 10 years but the murder of Vincent Massaro aka Jimmy the Hammer basically for all intents and purposes was a was a death shot to the Rochester group. All the leaders of the Rochester Mafia were locked up for the Massaro murder. Eventually they were let out and the case was tossed but when they were gone the people they had left in charge didn't want to relinquish the reins and it turned into a huge mafia shooting and bombing war that spelled the end of the Rochester Mafia can all be traced back to the Thanksgiving week 1973 murder of enforcer Jimmy the Hammer Massaro. I'm sure there's a lot more out there in the history of the Mafia and Thanksgiving but those are my my top Thanksgiving week mob hits. For OG Pod I'm Scott Bernstein out.