Ernest Lanthier, 50, was arrrested for stabbing his roommate Edward Cross, 72, to death in his room on the fourth floor of 67 Craig W., which was a rooming house, on April 13, 1956. He told a jury in October that he knew nothgin aboutthe stabbing. He was an unemployed labourer and was drunk at the time. The jury found him guilty of a reduce charge of manslaughter.     The reason we note this specific event?    We like the pic of the detectives lighting his cigarette.     This indicates that cops were pretty tender towards their suspects at the t ..read more

Mario Taddeo and wife Geraldine       A man wearing a children’s Halloween mask stormed into a construction office trailer at a quarry in Mirabel on a December morning in 1987. He flashed his gun and demanded the 10 people present point him to Mario Taddeo. The employees did not immediately comply but the intruder figured it out. Taddeo presented his identification before the gunman shot him dead, as well as another innocent bystander. Police later concluded that it was a hired hit man, due to his unfamiliarity with the victim.      Police ..read more

   Veteran Montreal stripper and sex video performer Fedha Sinon was so broke as recently as 2019 that she got booted from her  West Island apartment for failing to pay rent.   Now against all odds, she has managed to reach an unlikely level of fame and business notoreity as the performer known as Pinky Doll.     Amazingly this scrappy little persistent starlet has far surpassed any possible mathematical projections of notoreity by becoming one of the planet's most-talked about people.     Pinky Doll has recently been profiled in such serious ..read more

There's a story that has floated around for decades about Tony Bennett visiting Montreal in the 1950s.  Here's the story: Bennett happened to come to a small jazz cafe in NDG in the West End of Montreal where he took a shine to the art on the walls.  Bennett determined that he simply had to purchase some of it. Turns out, however, that he had no money to pay. Instead, he offered his fur coat as payment. Both sides were satisfied and the deal was struck. Bennett left with the art and somebody inside left with Bennett's fur coat.  Details of this story, which was remembered by j ..read more

A guy named Rodney Nichols, now aged 81, allegedly killed Jewell Langford in 1975 and dumped her body into the South Nation River west of Montreal.   Nicholas lives in Florida and now faces extradition to face charges here in Montreal after DNA apparently pointed to him as the killer in the 48-year old slaying.     Jewell Langford taught at Baptist Church and participated in American Busienss Womens Association meetings   She ran a business with her husband Atlas at 444 E Main in Jackson Tennessee. It was some sort of fitness centre called the Slenderette (for women) a ..read more

Perry Brian West, who became well-known for patroling the downtown Montreal area of St. Catherine near Bishop and Crescent streets wielding a banana as a comical way to solicit cash, has died in Nova Scotia at the age of 66.   West was born and died in Africville, Nova Scotia and was the youngest of 15 children of Roy and Lena, only two of their kids are now still alive.  Since he has a ton of relatives I won't say anything negative about him, which is easy because I don't thave anything negative to say about him, other than that I'm not generally a huge fan of beggars in city ..read more

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   After years of searching high and low and far and wide, a photo of the Swiss Hut has emerged from a cave in the jungles of outer Boirsbriand and peacefully surrendered to heavily-armed cowboy hat-clad Coolopolis interns.    The Swiss Hut was the jewel in the crown of a now totally disappeared bar strip on Sherbrooke Street east of McGill University to Park. The structures were razed for that godawful hotel that has sat on the property since the early 70s.    Other joints on the strip included the Spanish social club (that later grew up and became Casa Pedro o ..read more

    Michael Quigley blew the scales off IQ tests and kung fu competitions and also served as a criminal lawyer.    Quigley was from Montreal and studied law at McGill while also practicing martial arts at the highest levels.    He had a kung fu gym in Old Montreal where he worked with West End Gang toughs Danny Neeson and Brian Forget, among others.    On one occasion Quigley found himself confronted by West End Gang hangaround Chuckie Mitchell.    Quigley, according to the still-cited yarn, managed to disarm Mitchell only to have Mitchell pul ..read more

   Sandro Grande has been in the news lately, as the retired soccer player was cancelled for social media stuff and was prevented from taking a job as a coach.    So a little background on Sandro Grande's inlaws    Grande is married to Tania Siconolfi. Tania's father Eligio was murdered - likely by the Cotroni crime family - in 1986.    Eligio Siconolfi was born in 1939 and was a motorcycle racer in Italy when he arrived in Canada in 1960. He switched to racing cars once in Montreal, racing Mini Coopers for the Cambridge Motor Racing Team.    ..read more