A Calender of Creeps and Crimes

Mike Malloy was born in a rural village in Co. Donegal and like many other Irish at the time he found himself making his way across The Atlantic, in search of a better life in America. While Malloy was a firefighter he fell upon hard times in the 1930s and found himself unemployed and homeless on the streets of New York City. What little money he had, he would spend in a small speakeasy bar called Marino's, located on Third Avenue.  In 1933 a plot was developed by a group who knew Mike for being the local drunk. Tony Marino, Joseph Murphy, Francis Pasqua, Hershey Green, and Daniel Kriesberg would later be called The Murder Trust by the media. The plan was simple, they took out a life insurance policies on Mike's life to the value of $3,500 with the idea that they would let Mike drink himself to death at Marino's speakeasy.  Marino had hatched a similar scheme in the past, taking out a life insurance policy on a woman, with himself named as the sole b...

  February-21-1978  Stephen Kubacki's abandoned skis and his backpack were found by a group of snow mobilers. Stephen (23) was a college student, set to graduate that same year when he decided to go for a cross-country ski arounf the Saugatuck area and was expected to be gone for a couple of days. The skis were found at the edge of Lake Michigan and the footprints that could be seen in the snow stopped abruptly, it was believed that Kubacki had fallen into the lake and his body would float to the surface as it began to thaw.  Stephen was born into a working class family, his father worked at a local factory and his mother worked as a secretary. He gradated from Deerfield Academy as a day student. He went on to study a major in German, after swapping his choice a handful of times. He wrote for the college newspaper and he is described as being free spirited with a keen interest in Dungeons And Dragons.  While the majority of people who knew Stephen started setting abo...