Andrew Von Etter
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Andrew "The Barron" Von Etter (1940–1967) was a Boston mobster and an associate of loanshark Edward “Wimpy” Bennett and brothers James "Jimmy the Bear" Flemmi and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi
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Born in Palanga
, Lithuania
Andrew's immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1947. He soon became involved in criminal activity and, in 1962, was eventually arrested for safecracking while working as a part-time security guard (he would also be arrested in Dearborn Square, Roxbury that same year, an area controlled by Edward “Wimpy” Bennett and the Flemmi brothers). During his trial he claimed his great grandfather General Sebastian von Etter a distinguished fighter in 1871 after Russia's war with Turkey, and his father was a German noble.
In February 1967, shortly after the disappearance of Edward Bennett, Von Etter also disappeared missing. Police eventually found his body stuffed in the trunk of his 1965 Mustang after receiving an anonymous tip of an abandoned vehicle on the Medford-Somerville line. Although he had a rope around his neck, his death was thought to have ben attributed to either two gunshot wounds or blunt trauma to the head (possibly by a tire iron).
Indicted on bank fraud charges with William Waugh and Earl Smith, who had earlier been involved in a failed attempt on the life of mobster Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin
, authorities believed his death may have been in connection to the ongoing gang war with the McLaughlin Brothers and the Winter Hill Gang
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Stephen Flemmi
Stephen Joseph "The Rifleman" Flemmi is an Italian-American mobster and close associate of Winter Hill Gang boss James J. Bulger. Beginning in 1965, Flemmi was a top echelon informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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Born in Palanga
Palanga
Palanga and beautiful sand dunes. Officially Palanga has the status of a city municipality and includes Šventoji, Nemirseta, Būtingė and other settlements, which are considered as part of the city of Palanga.-Legend:...
, Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
Andrew's immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1947. He soon became involved in criminal activity and, in 1962, was eventually arrested for safecracking while working as a part-time security guard (he would also be arrested in Dearborn Square, Roxbury that same year, an area controlled by Edward “Wimpy” Bennett and the Flemmi brothers). During his trial he claimed his great grandfather General Sebastian von Etter a distinguished fighter in 1871 after Russia's war with Turkey, and his father was a German noble.
In February 1967, shortly after the disappearance of Edward Bennett, Von Etter also disappeared missing. Police eventually found his body stuffed in the trunk of his 1965 Mustang after receiving an anonymous tip of an abandoned vehicle on the Medford-Somerville line. Although he had a rope around his neck, his death was thought to have ben attributed to either two gunshot wounds or blunt trauma to the head (possibly by a tire iron).
Indicted on bank fraud charges with William Waugh and Earl Smith, who had earlier been involved in a failed attempt on the life of mobster Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin
Edward McLaughlin
Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin was a former boxer and a member of the "The McLaughlin Brothers" gang of Charlestown, Massachusetts...
, authorities believed his death may have been in connection to the ongoing gang war with the McLaughlin Brothers and the Winter Hill Gang
Winter Hill Gang
The Winter Hill Gang is a structured confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have...
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