Brooklyn's Most Wanted: The Top 100 Criminals Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings

BROOKLYNS MOST WANTED parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the Boroughs most notorious ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering Ponzi scheming hijacking murder loan sharking arson illegal gambling money laundering? Fugetaboutit! Take this guide tour through gangland that rips open the underbelly of Brooklyn the broken land to see what spills from the South Brooklyn Boys to the Soviet thugs of Brighton Beachs Little Odessa. Want to know what Billy the Kid John Wilkes Booth and the Son of Sam all have in common? Brooklyn. Anthony Gaspipe Casso Al Capone Frankie Yale Paul Vario Roy DeMeo and so many more malicious malcontents and maniacs stalk these pages as author Craig McGuire rank a rogues gallery of the best of the worst from Brooklyns crime-ridden past and present. This includes more than a century of screaming crime blotter headlines spotlighting epic cases like The Brooklyn Godmother The Sex Killer of Brooklyn The Nurse Girl Murder The Long Island Railroad Massacre The Thrill Kills Gang and many more. From Son of Sam to Son of Sal Little Lepke to Big Paulie The Butcher of Brooklyn The Vampire of Brooklyn The Gang Who Couldnt Shoot Straight even The Man Who Murdered Brooklyn Baseball theyre all here. Much more than Murder Incorporated this book features kingpins and lone wolves alike with a line-up featuring many of the multi-ethnic mobs mimicking the original La Cosa Nostra - the Russian Mafia the Albanian Mafia the Polish Mafia the Greek Mafia - in fact this book contains more Mafias than you can shake a bloody blackjack at. The authors proprietary Notorious Brooklyn Index analyzes criminal activity socio-economic type notoriety relation to Brooklyn and more for a final score thats far from conjecture--though it will undoubtedly spark debate. Welcome to Gangland U.S.A. - A.K.A. the bloody brutal killing grounds of Brooklyn New York. Watch your back!