A Spanish serial murderer, nicknamed the ‘playing card killer’ because he left a card at the scene of his crimes, has received jail sentences totalling 142 years.
Former soldier Alfredo Galan was convicted of six murders and three attempted murders, court sources said on Wednesday.
Galan would greet his victims and ask them politely to kneel down before shooting them because ‘manners were the most important thing’, Spanish newspaper El Mundo quoted a policeman as saying during his trial.
The former soldier, who appeared to pick his victims at random in public places, withdrew an initial confession in which he had said he carried out the murders to show how easy it was.
Officials said at the time of the murders in 2003 that one man, whose body was found with an ace card by it, had been killed with a blow to the head.
However, local media reported that Galan, whom psychiatrists described as a ‘human predator’, shot all his victims at close range. crimezzz online article
GALANTE, CARMINE: Mafia’s Greatest Hits I II TV - Mafia Empire 2006
Carmine Galante was a mobster who frightened even the Mafia men. Even if he seemed old he was deadly. He had worked the mean streets for decades. At the age of sixty his career seemed finished. But from his prison cell he masterminded an astonishing comeback, and flooded New York’s streets with heroin. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Carmine Galante: Men of Steel & Heroin, 2012
One of the most notorious Mob crimes ever ... One of the city’s biggest mobsters, Carmine Galante, was having lunch. And it was here that he was interrupted. ibid.
Carmine Galante’s career was built on heroin. ibid.
Bonanno had brought with him his trusted underboss Carmine Galante. ibid.
This complex international journey from Turkey to north America through France became known as the French Connection. ibid.
The FBI arrested him in 1961 on a charge of narcotics trafficking ... He got twenty years in prison. ibid.
He wanted to take on the biggest family in New York – the Gambinos. ibid.
In the ghettos of New York heroin was now the drug of choice. ibid.
As the Gambinos’ restaurants burned, new pizza parlours opened by Galante were opened up in their place. ibid.
The Mafia’s interest in drugs has waned ... The French Connection has been replaced by new smuggling routes. ibid.
Sonny Black had taken part in the murder of the boss of his own family, Carmine Galante. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Donnie Brasco: Undercover in the Mob
The key intermediary between the Sicilian and American Mafia was Carmine Galante. Mafia Empire: Breaking the Vow, 2006
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When a pregnant mum goes missing her husband [Mark Galante] joins the search. But is he hiding vital information? Faking It s5e5: Mark Galante
Stanhope Gardens, home in 2006 to a young couple Mark and Jody Galante. On January 7th, Mark Galante telephoned police saying he was due to collect Jody at the local shopping mall, but when he’d arrived with daughter Zayla, Jody hadn’t showed up. ibid.
He had started an affair with a woman he’d met on the internet. ibid. Kerry
From the start police had suspected Jodie’s husband, Mark Galante. ibid.
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In the late ’70s a sadistic husband and wife team stalked the American west. Their mission deviant and depraved. What motivated this match made in Hell? And were they born to kill? Born to Kill? s6e3: Gerald & Charlene Gallego, Sky Vision 2015
Detectives were however convinced of Gerald and Charlene Gallego’s involvement in Mary Beth’s abduction and the death of Craig Miller but had little evidence to tie them in. ibid.
Prosecutors struck a deal: in return for her testimony Charlene would be offered a reduced sentence. But no-one was prepared for the horror Charlene would reveal. ibid.
‘The original plan was sex slaves.’ ibid. Jim Morris, former deputy
A total of ten murders. ibid.
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Each victim had been shot in the head with a rifle. People Magazine Investigates s5e2: Jenner Beach Murders, ID 2021
Demons in his head were telling him he had to kill these people. ibid.
Lindsay [Cutshall] was introduced to Jason Allen … Jason and Lindsay were deeply in love with each other … After days of searching there is no sign of Lindsay and Jason or the car. ibid.
Jenner beach: We realised we were investigating a double homicide. ibid. rozzer
Sheriff’s deputies quickly capture Gallon a short distance from his mother’s home where he tells them he shot his younger brother. ibid.
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1992: A little after 7 p.m. Carole Shaw [6], Dawn’s mother, contacts police to report her daughter’s disappearance … ‘The causes of death – there are many.’ Killer Kids s1e3: Sexual Killers, YourTV 2018
They interrogated Jason Gamache, 16, a babysitter known to all the families in the area … Is Jason Gamache a paedophile? … The newspapers publish articles on the teenager’s troubled past. ibid.
Given away by his shoe-prints and a few woollen fibres Jason is arrested. ibid.
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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.