His name was Giuseppe Morello. • He came to New York City in 1892 from Corleone, the town in western Sicily whose name Mario Puzo borrowed to create literature’s most famous Mafioso. • A half-century ...

In the early morning of April 14, 1903, a nearly decapitated body was found stuffed into a wooden barrel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Six men were arrested in connection with the crime. One, ...

The Italian Mafia remains as carved into the American pop culture psyche as the westerns of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. While genre classics like “The Sopranos” and “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather” ...

Giuseppe Morello is almost entirely unknown today, but Mike Dash's vivid account of his life and crimes leaves no doubt that this would be a far different country -- and in all likelihood a far better ...

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Giuseppe Morello, 79, husband of Vincenza (Fazzino) Morello of Melilli Sicily, died Monday, July 18 in Melilli. He was born Jan. 21, 1926 in Melilli Sicily, son of the late Sebastiano and Carmela ...

He was born Jan. 1, 1926 in Melilli Sicily, son of the late Sebastiano and Carmela (Vinci) Morello. Besides his wife he is survived by two sons and daughter-in-laws, Sebastiano and Silvia Morello of ...