In the spring of 1927, a man named Frankie Wright, a jewel thief who had relocated from Chicago to Detroit, met a violent and bloody end. His death was not a simple affair but a calculated execution that would come to be known as the Milaflores Massacre. Wright, along with his associates Joseph Bloom and George Cohen, had carved out a dangerous niche in the Detroit underworld by kidnapping local gamblers connected to the notorious Purple Gang for ransom. Their criminal enterprise also allegedly
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