Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Philip "The Chicken Man" Testa rose to power in the Philadelphia mafia after Angelo Bruno's assassination in 1980, ending an era ...

Angelo Bruno, Philadelphia's mob boss in the 1960s and 1970s, was killed by a shotgun blast in 1980 as he sat in a car in front of his house on 934 Snyder Avenue. The grisly story is no doubt a point ...

John Stanfa found himself in a crime war with Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino throughout the 1990s By 1990, mob veteran John Stanfa took over from Nicky Scarfo as the leader of the Philadelphia family ...

In the 1970s, Philadelphia saw the rise of a young mobster named John Stanfa, as featured in the Netflix series Mob War. Born in Sicily, Stanfa moved to the United States in 1964 and quickly began ...