Tag: Joey Diamond

• On this Day in 1925; The Biter (nearly) Bitten at Sing Sing.

  

  When heroin-loving gangsters Morris ‘Whitey’ Diamond and his brother Joey teamed up with John Farina for an armed robbery and murder, they surely knew they had a fair chance of joining him in Sing Sing’s Death House and Old Sparky as well. The 1920’s and 30’s were halcyon days for New York’s ‘State Electrician’ and…

  CrimeScribe

  April 30, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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