Buster from Chicago

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Buster from Chicago was the pseudonym of a US contract killer who played a key role in the so-called Castellammare War 1929-1931, which was fought out within the Cosa Nostra - the US Mafia .

There are essentially two theories about the real person behind this pseudonym. According to the first theory, it is a fictional character created by Joe Valachi in 1963 in order not to burden himself with his statements as Pentito . Others identify him as Sebastiano Domingo .

Life

Thompson 1928A1 with accessories packed in a violin case

By using a pseudonym, little is known about Buster's past life before he appeared as a hit man in the 1930s. Joe Valachi - if it wasn't himself - describes him as a "college boy" who supposedly carried his Thompson submachine gun in a violin case.

The murders in which Buster is alleged to have been involved are also largely based on Valachi's statement from 1963.

According to this, Buster was involved in the murder of Peter Morello on August 15, 1930 , which is seen as the starting point of the Castellammare war . (However, there is also the suspicion that this murder was carried out by Albert Anastasia and Frank Scalise .)

Furthermore, on November 5, 1930, Buster is said to have shot Alfred Mineo and Steve Ferrigno with a shotgun on the street in the Bronx . Valachi stated to have picked up Buster with the other two participants Girolamo "Bobby Doyle" Santuccio and Nick Capuzzi after the fact.

The murder of Giuseppe Catania followed on February 3, 1931 . Valachi claimed that after the Castellammare War, Buster wanted to continue cracking down on Lucky Luciano - the real winner of the conflict - but was shot himself.

Since Valachi also stated that the buster should come from Castellammare del Golfo , the assumption arose that it could be Sebastiano Domingo , who was nicknamed "Bastinao" because of his first name, from which the abbreviated "Buster" in US English who was born in that Sicilian city ​​in 1910 and whose family emigrated to Chicago in 1913 , first moved to Benton Harbor in the 1920s , but returned to the city in 1928. In the 1930s, Domingo went to Westchester County , New York, after his brother on August 19, 1929 in "Patsy's Restaurant" - at the intersection of Grand and Ogden Avenue had been shot, which the father of the future - Mobsters Tony Spilotro operated has been.

In addition - according to the information provided by Valachi - Sebastiano Domingo was shot on May 30, 1933 in Manhattan during a card game.

Even Joseph Bonanno  - Domingo was one of his crew, family head before he was himself - is based in his book A Man of Honor this Buster theory.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mob Stories , "'Buster from Chicago' - Revealed?"
  2. ^ Critchley, David. "Buster, Maranzano, and the Castellammare War 1930-31," Global Crime, Vol. 7, no. 1, February 2006. p. 6 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Buster from Chicago
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hit man
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century