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Old 11-21-2015, 04:46 PM
 
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Stanley Hoss was a famous case.
Have you read James Hollock's "Born to Lose"? It was very well done. I didn't even know the story beforehand.
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Old 11-21-2015, 05:26 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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The death of Jamie Stickle is an odd one because the clues do not make sense. She was out drinking after work and it seems like she went home at some point, left her work keys, then went back to her Jeep where she ended up dead.
There was blood on her front door and she was very intoxicated.
They haven't even officially ruled this a homicide. Could it have been a terrible set of unfortunate circumstances? She made it home, went inside, realized she left something in the car, went back outside, maybe tripped and got a bloody nose or cut herself somehow, sat down in the front seat because she was woozy, then somehow the car caught on fire?
Unsolved Murder Has Many Keys | News | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper
https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P...or-clues-never
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Old 11-23-2015, 08:44 AM
 
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How about the Triple 6 Fix of 4/24/1980?


Bowling kingpin Nick Perry fixed the drawing of the daily number at the Channel 4 studios in Wilkinsburg.


He would have gotten away with it, too, but the number he picked pointed the finger right at himself.

Mr. Perry's real name was Nicholas Katsafanas, and in the Pittsburgh White Pages, his name was on page 666.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_P...ottery_scandal
I wasn't very up on current events in 1980, but I do remember my Dad saying that there wouldn't have been an investigation by the state, except for the fact that the local bookies realized the fix was in and would not pay.
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Old 11-26-2015, 06:25 PM
 
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I wasn't very up on current events in 1980, but I do remember my Dad saying that there wouldn't have been an investigation by the state, except for the fact that the local bookies realized the fix was in and would not pay.

That is true, except it was nail polish injected into every ball EXCEPT the 4 and 6 and they were the only ones moving and hence made it to the top of the selection tubes. At the time the local mob payed 650:1 vs the 500:1 of the state, and they alerted the state to the fix.
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Old 11-26-2015, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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That is true, except it was nail polish injected into every ball EXCEPT the 4 and 6 and they were the only ones moving and hence made it to the top of the selection tubes. At the time the local mob payed 650:1 vs the 500:1 of the state, and they alerted the state to the fix.


It wasn't the local mob that had the complaints, it was the late Tony Grosso who ran a large numbers bank in Pittsburgh for many years.


Mr. Grosso was quite the character, he yapped about it to John Cigna and other radio people on KDKA. He was on the radio a lot, in his day, he turned state's evidence at least twice against people and continued on. District Attorney Robert Duggan's suicide in the 70's may have been prompted by the idea that he thought that Mr. Grosso was ratting him out for another deal. A real mobster would have known the meaning of "omertà", it wasn't in Grosso's vocabulary.
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Old 12-02-2015, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh PA
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there was the shadyside rapist, if someone hasn't already mentioned that.
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Old 12-02-2015, 09:47 AM
 
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There was the Shadyside Ninja as well.
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Old 12-16-2015, 12:23 AM
 
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shocked nobody's mentioned Baumhammers yet.
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Old 04-30-2016, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Stanley Hoss was a famous case.


Mr. Hoss was Allegheny County's most dangerous criminal for a while in the 70's, he broke out of the Workhouse before he went on his rampage.


A really notorious character back in the day.

Stanley Hoss: A most wanted man | Old Pittsburgh photos and stories | The Digs
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Old 05-01-2016, 07:57 PM
 
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Hey!



For example some of my family helped the search party look for a missing little girl named Beth Lynn Barr in 77.

I was exploring that a couple years ago, from archived information. At that time it was believed there were possibly TWO active serial killers in the eastern suburbs. Around the metro area, the amount of personal violence incidents - non drug-related, non-crime related, simply "random stranger on victim" (my words) - in the year of little Barr's abduction was astounding.

Kingunlucky, you may not know about this website that has an extensive feature on the abduction/murder of this girl:

https://whokilledbethbarr.wordpress.com/
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