Tag: little italy
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Mafia and Denver police history converge in the 1922 murder of an honest Italian cop
Richie Rose’s last words, “Mafia. Mafia. Mafia,” were a clue, but after a century, his murder is still unsolved. Still, the who-dunnit is no mystery. Rose, a young Denver cop became an enemy to 1920’s gangster bootleggers because he couldn’t be bribed. He was honored Monday a century after he was shot 21 times on…