This post is brought to you by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: If there was any doubt that ladies could be fierce mobsters, one of the most notorious criminal minds of late is Lynne Strazzere, the “Bookie Mom”. Strazzere, a middle-aged soccer mom from Boston suburb Reading, was part of a major Massachusetts gambling and drug ring, the “Rossetti Criminal Organization.” The ring was penetrated by authorities in 2010, and 31 members including Strazzere were…
This post is brought to you by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: Organized crime is predominantly a men’s world, but there are some women whose penchant for violence, drug laundering and more that have made them infamous crime figures. Here are a few notable ones over the decades: STEPHANIE ST. CLAIR: The French-African immigrant ran a numbers bank in Harlem in the 1920s. By the 1930s St. Clair, known as “Queenie,” became so successful that…
Sponsored by the new ABC drama, Red Widow: Gangsters may be tough, but they are nothing compared to the strength of a mother trying to raise and protect her children. Here are a few examples of some truly tough moms, including the amazing, misguided, and criminal: Erin Brockovich (Getty Images) ERIN BROCKOVICH: Before she was famously portrayed by Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning role, Erin Brockovich was a divorced single mother of three who…
Sponsored by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: Organized crime has always thrived on intimidation and brutal acts, but sometimes the violence is unspeakably gruesome. Here are some of the most notorious mob hits, from a gruesome payback to the stool pigeon who couldn’t fly: Al Capone had an alibi for the massacre THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE: Considered the “most infamous of all gangland slayings in America,” seven men were lined up against a…
This post is brought to you by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: If there was any doubt that ladies could be fierce mobsters, one of the most notorious criminal minds of late is Lynne Strazzere, the “Bookie Mom”. Strazzere, a middle-aged soccer mom from Boston suburb Reading, was part of a major Massachusetts gambling and drug ring, the “Rossetti Criminal Organization.” The ring was penetrated by authorities in 2010, and 31 members including Strazzere were…