Mafia Confession: The “King of Bootleggers” Murder

When alleged mob hitman Giuseppe “Joe” Parisi gunned down Carlo Siniscalchi—the ruthless “King of Bootleggers”—as his limousine idled at the curb, he set off one of the bloodiest Mafia vendettas in New England history.

The fallout was immediate and savage.

A retaliatory strike on Parisi’s unsuspecting family and attorney.

A deadly car-to-car gunfight on a desolate Connecticut roadway.

A notorious mobster executed in a barber’s chair.

The first time the Mafia put a hit on a woman—the “Bootleg Queen” herself, Pasqualina Siniscalchi-Miranda.

At the center of it all was an electrifying trial that drew over 2,000 spectators to the courthouse—where Parisi’s defense attorney would one day become Governor of Massachusetts.

Drawn from Parisi’s own jailhouse diary, as well as law enforcement archives, newspapers, and eyewitness interviews, Mafia Confession is a rare inside account of the rise of the Springfield Crew, its deep ties to the Genovese Crime Family, and its bloody legacy.

Award-winning author Nicholas Anthony Parisi delivers a powerful true crime chronicle—part history, part family memoir—that reads with the intensity of a mob thriller and the brutal honesty of lived experience.

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