Murder Never Dies

 Kadizzle was hopping around on his laptop when he found a book he must have purchased some time ago. Murder Never Dies was the book. On the first page that happened to show was the name Bob Dorn. Kadizzle went to school with Bob Dorn.  He was a fat kid and had fat brother. Also Dorn had a wild sister named Lorretta who wore skin tight leather pants.  Bob Dorn lived near my Uncle and shot at my Uncles house on one occasion. This got me interested in the book which maybe Kadizzle had read before. The book was about a famous gangster in the home Town ow Wheeling, West Virginia, which was known as "little Chicago".  Kadizzle remembers going to school one day and Bob Dorn showed up with a sweatshirt on.  Bobby as he was called kept scratching and moving his hand all over the sweat shirt until a hamster crawled out the sleeve.  The hamster was living in his T shirt.  Kadizzle remembes hearing Dorn went to prison so Kadizzle wanted to see what role Dorn played in the book. Dorn's father no doubt was connected to the crime gangs in the area. Dorn's father ran a strange business out on the interstate that sold to tourist.  More than likely it was a front for something else.  As Kadizzle may have mentioned in the past he had a boyhood friend who's father ran the illegal gambling in town.  Kadizzle rode in a car with a major crime figure in the book. Paul Hankish picked up Kadizzle and his friend Ben on the Suspension Bridge and took us for a speedboat ride on the Ohio River.  A few weeks later Hankish had his legs blown off when he started his car.  

Anyway the book goes into how Bill Lias became one of the richest crime figures in the United States at the time. Lias based his criminal activities in Wheeling, Kadizzle's home town.  Hankish took over for Lias when Lias went to prison.  Reading about these people is fun, because it traces the history of crime in Wheeling.  It is obvious the respectable people were in on the game. Kadizzle has read all he can about Wheeling mafia activity since his friends father was tied into it. Kadizzle has always been curious about how the Dobkins got involved in organized crime. Most of the people who made illegal money converted the winnings into real estate.  The book is well written and has drawn Kadazzle in.  Maybe an update tomorrow.