Old Timey Crimey #112: New Orleans Mafia - "Not a Mushroom"

How organized crime developed in the Big Easy, from a legendary shooting to exile in Sicily. 

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Music

Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-wave
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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
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Sources

Thomas Hunt. The American Mafia. http://mob-who.blogspot.com/2011/04/carolla-silvestro-1896-1972.html

Larry Henry. The Mob Museum. https://themobmuseum.org/blog/big-mob-trouble-in-the-big-easy/

Justina Nystrom. 64 Parishes. https://64parishes.org/entry/sicilian-lynchings-in-new-orleans

Wikipedia. “New Orleans Lynchings.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lynchings

Times Picayune. Louisiana Review. St. Landry Clarion. Knoxville Journal. Via Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=police+chief+shot&s_place=New+Orleans%2C+LA&dr_year=1890-1890&silo=2

Ronald Rawson. National Crime Syndicate. https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/day-1943-charles-matranga-dies-aged-86/

Dexterbabin. https://louisianamafia.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/the-gangs-of-new-orleans/

Mafia Nicknames: https://mafiahistory.us/maf-nick.html

https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/Sylvestro_Carollo

http://mob-who.blogspot.com/2011/04/carolla-silvestro-1896-1972.html

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19630807&id=_4kgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aWYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=970,3266698

http://www.neworleanspast.com/todayinneworleanshistory/june17.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvestro_Carollo

https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/Sylvestro_Carollo

http://mob-who.blogspot.com/2011/04/carolla-silvestro-1896-1972.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89704711/silvestro-t-carollo