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ABC:LHS #079-0 Thugs and Gangsters  

Some Laurel Hill residents are remembered today for their involvement with organized crime in the 1930s and 1940s. 

Petito "Little Petey" Bisciotti was a wannabe numbers man killed in what has become known as the Flag Day Massacre.

Willie Lanzetti was one of six notorious brothers in constant legal troubles; he met his end in a gangland slaying before his body was cremated and the ashes scattered at Laurel Hill West.

East Falls resident Victor “Babe” Andreoli was a cop-killer and Eastern State Penitentiary escapee who was gunned down at a breakfast café in Chester.

You’ll also hear part of the long sordid tale of the arsenic poisoning for insurance ring that took dozens of lives in the late 1930s. Two women who were tried based on the most circumstantial evidence against them were found “not guilty” when they were represented by Raymond Pace Alexander.