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by woodyrivers
December 27th, 2008, 4:22 pm
Forum: Canada street gangs & US Organized Crime
Topic: Kansas City Mafia
Replies: 35
Views: 120481

Re: Kansas City Mafia

Kansas City Star, “Fire damages liquor store, nearby buildings,” June 16, 1980. page 3A. In 1983, the property was re-acquired by Dorothy Bruno from the same individual to whom she had sold it three years earlier. Currently the property is a vacant lot, owned by a church to which Bruno bequeathed it...
by woodyrivers
December 27th, 2008, 4:20 pm
Forum: Canada street gangs & US Organized Crime
Topic: Kansas City Mafia
Replies: 35
Views: 120481

Re: Kansas City Mafia

Here are a couple of interesting facts about the property at 33rd and Woodland and its owner. Since the early 1960’s the property and the building, which contained the liquor store and a beauty shop, had been owned by Dorothy Bruno, owner of Bruno’s bonding. In the book Battle Behind the Badge, reti...
by woodyrivers
December 16th, 2008, 2:57 pm
Forum: Canada street gangs & US Organized Crime
Topic: Kansas City Mafia
Replies: 35
Views: 120481

Re: Kansas City Mafia

We also used to go to a bar near 51st & Main called "Mothers" in the 70s and there were some pretty shady characters in there.
by woodyrivers
December 4th, 2008, 2:45 pm
Forum: Canada street gangs & US Organized Crime
Topic: Kansas City Mafia
Replies: 35
Views: 120481

Re: Kansas City Mafia

Where were the homes north of the river known as "the compound"? I had heard there were underground passages between these homes. Any truth to that?