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Castellano in 1976 many saw him as someone who rose to the top because of his relationship with Gambino not because he had paid his dues on the street. Mobsters s1e14: The Gambinos: First Family of Crime, Biography 1997
December 16th 1985 ... Inside the car Castellano and Bilotti had no time to react. The boss of the Gambino crime family lay dead on the sidewalk. John Gotti had orchestrated his own rise to the head of the Gambino crime family. Mobsters: John Gotti, Biography 2008
Gambino chose his brother-in-law Paul Castellano. Castellano was now in charge of the largest criminal organisation in the country ... Hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Mobsters: The Mob’s Greatest Hits
John Gotti was furious that his boss Dellacroce had got passed over. ibid.
Castellano had made a fatal miscalculation by underestimating the wroth of John Gotti. ibid.
John Gotti was convicted of multiple murders including Castellano’s. In 2002 Gotti died in prison of throat cancer. ibid.
Roy kept lending money to friends, and started to hang around with some questionable characters. Mobsters: Roy DeMeo
DeMeo went on to assemble one of the deadliest teams of professional killers in the history of organised crime. ibid.
Castellano didn’t trust DeMeo, so he issued an order: DeMeo had to go. ibid.
Roy DeMeo had made a name for himself as the enforcer for Gambino bass Paul Castellano. Mobsters: Paul Castellano
Gambino had established himself as a business-savvy earner ... When he was promoted to Captain, he brought young Paul Castellano in under his wing. ibid.
On his deathbed Gambino shocked everyone by choosing Paul Castellano as his successor. ibid.
On December 16th 1985 Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino family, arrived at a Stake House in mid-Manhattan ... The hit was ordered by a rival within the same family. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Downfall
John Gotti was the most famous gangsta since Al Capone. He brutally murdered his way to become head of the most powerful crime family in America. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: John Gotti
The assassination of Paul Castellano was one of the most dramatic hits in Mafia history. ibid.
In 1973 Gotti was given the opportunity to join the most powerful of the five Mafia crime families in New York: the Gambinos. ibid.
Gotti began to nurture a growing hatred for Paul Castellano. ibid.
The Gambinos: In the shadowy world of organised crime the Gambino family stood out. One of five crime families in New York in the 1930s it ranked at the top with the Genovese family in size and wealth. The Gambinos
Like Capone, John Gotti was a gangster straight from central casting right down to the way he talked ... It was brutality that got John Gotti to the top of the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985. ibid.
Carlo Gambino put the family on the map during his reign from 1957 to 1976. ibid.
As soon as Castellano stepped from his Limousine Gotti’s men gunned him down. ibid.
Gambino family finances were already on the decline as a result of the crackdown on Mob activities in the mid-80s. Gotti’s lack of business sense only made matters worse. Whatever success the Family had was largely due to Gotti’s senior adviser Salvatore Sammy ‘the Bull’ Gravano. ibid.
When Gotti and Gravano heard the tapes they knew they were in trouble. Gravano realised he could be implicated in nineteen mob hits. That’s when he did the unthinkable: he ratted on his boss. ibid.
Castellano was an imposing figure of a man, a contrast to the diminutive Gambino, and a Godfather who carefully cultivated the image of a business man. Mafia Empire: Vow of Silence, 2006
In the United States the principle target of the FBI was John Gotti – a new style of Mafia, whose court victories made him seem invincible. Mafia Empire – Vendetta
The murder of Castellano and his chauffeur on the streets of New York was the most sensational Mafia execution since the 1950s, and the brazen murder heralded the reign of a new Mafia boss – John Gotti. ibid.
It is 1986 and the fortunes of the five families of the American Mob are changing rapidly. Inside the American Mob s1e5: Rise and Fall of Gotti, 2013
The hit on Castellano was not sanctioned by the Commission. ibid.
CASTLE, LAURA: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, August 2020: Laura Castle was incredibly deceptive, and incredibly deceitful, and lied by omission time and time again.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e5: Laura Castle
Laura Castle and her husband Scott had persuaded social services in Cumbria that they were suitable to be considered as adoptive parents. ibid.
In August 2020 an 8-month-old boy was transferred from foster care. ibid.
CASTOR, STACEY: Crime Stories: Woeful Widow TV -
48-year-old David owned his own heating and ventilation company. The business was in debt ... His father had recently died ... According to Stacey, David had been depressed and acting strangely. Crime Stories: Woeful Widow – Stacey Castor
One of the strangest cases of their careers. ibid.
Police still wondered what motivated Stacey to poison her own family. ibid.
CASTREE, RONALD [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Kiszko, Stefan]: Weird Island online - BBC online - Guardian online - Real Crime with Mark Austin TV - Truly Criminal: The Murder of Lesley Molseed 2021 - Forensics: Catching the Killer TV -
The identity of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed’s murderer was not ascertained until 22 years after her body was found near Rishworth Moor. But for 16 of those 22 years, an innocent man slept behind bars for the crime. The victim of what is often described as Britain’s worst miscarriage of justice, Stefan Kiszko, lived for barely a year following the overturning of his conviction and never got to see the conviction of the real killer in 2007.
Shockingly, the evidence that proved his innocence was known to the police at the time of his conviction. As a sufferer of hypogonadism, Kiszko could never produce the sperm heads that were found in the ejaculate on Lesley’s clothing. Nonetheless, Kiszko was found guilty on the strength of a confession made after hours of questioning and without a solictor being present. Other alleged pieces of ‘evidence’ brought against Kiszko included his idiosyncratic hobby of writing down the registration numbers of cars he saw and allegations made by four local girls that he had exposed himself to them. Only after his conviction was quashed would the girls admit to having falsely concocted the claims – but even though would not apologise to him. Weird Island online article
It is one of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice.
Stefan Kiszko served 16 years in prison for the murder and sexual assault of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed – a crime he did not commit.
He was freed on appeal in 1992, when new evidence proved he could not have killed her. He died the following year from a heart attack, aged 41.
His mother Charlotte, who campaigned relentlessly to prove his innocence, died just months after him. BBC online article 12th November 2007