Hollywood Goodfella: Gangland ties initially suspected in deadly 1929 heist

Police examined the Agua Caliente money car that was robbed in 1929. The car’s two guards were shot to death during the heist.

Employing tactics of Chicago’s gangland, and armed with a machine gun and large caliber automatics, two desperate bandits yesterday noon sent a stream of bullets into the Agua Caliente money car as it crossed the National City dike, killed the two occupants of the machine and escaped with $85,000 in cash and checks. 

Hollywood Goodfella: Lost Caravaggio painting ‘was burnt by Mafia’

“Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence” was stolen in Palermo in 1969

A lost painting by Caravaggio which art lovers have long hoped might still be found was burnt and destroyed by the Mafia, according to a former hitman turned pentito (informer).      read the Full Story
The painting, Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence, was stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo in 1969. Its whereabouts since then have remained a mystery despite investigations not only by police but also by scholars and art lovers.