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Jim Burdick
Don Bolles Murder

Jim Burdick

John Adamson wasn’t Carl Verive’s only non-Mafia sidekick. Another such local fellow was Jim Burdick, reportedly a business partner of Verive in both a salvage yard on West Buckeye in Phoenix and an area apartment maintenance service. Burdick also was said to have developed considerable skills in electronics while employed for a time by General … Continue reading

Carl Verive
Don Bolles Murder

Carl Verive

Starting to attract too much attention from Chicago law enforcement officials, Mafia enforcer and killer Carl Verive opted to move west by 1970 — if not a bit sooner — to Phoenix, a growing town rapidly becoming a desert colony of the Windy City mob. But also noticed here by Phoenix PD intelligence officers, he … Continue reading

Rocky and Frank
Don Bolles Murder

Rocky and Frank

John Adamson’s numerous acquaintances in the Valley of the Sun with penchants for criminal activities included William Rocco “Rocky” D’Ambrosio and Frank Mossuto. They were Chicago mob guys who back in the 1970s had acquired a lounge in Scottsdale called La Versailles. They were the ones who also procured the dynamite used in the car-bomb … Continue reading