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the murders of two tony's 1951

Tony Trombino and Tony Brancato were well known to law enforcement agents as "shake-down" artists and mob muscle men.

 

They were found shot to death in a 1949 Oldsmobile on North Ogden Drive.

 

The two Tony's had been named as suspects in the attempted hit on Micky Cohen outside Sherry's on the Sunset Strip. Brancato had been arrested as a suspect in the killing of Bugsy Siegel but was released.

 

The murder of the "Two Tony's" was finally solved in 1978 when Mob hitman, Jimmy the Weasel Fratiano confessed to the killings as part of his testimony before entering the witness protection program.

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Uploaded on August 11, 2010