Cleveland's Killer Celebrities, Part 1

Shondor the Brutal Killer

Not long after Birns got out, police arrested 19 people in a melee at the opening of a Euclid Avenue nightclub. Searching through the cars in the parking lot, they found Birns lying on the ground.

He had been shot, but was able to walk into the emergency room for treatment. He denied knowing who shot him.

Two months later, Rudy Duncan, 42, "ex-pugilist and night club bouncer," took his 11-year-old foster son Stanley to a movie. Afterwards, they walked to a confectionery for ice cream.

When they got into their car back in the theater parking lot, two men wearing white cotton gloves walked up alongside, one on each side. With a terrified Stanley crouching in the seat, they fired five bullets into Duncan.

Police immediate began a search for Birns. They found him, but they couldn't find evidence to tie him to the murder. He was released.

Out on the street, however, the word was getting around:

"Don't mess with Shondor Birns."

Next: Shondor the Genial Host

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1. "Shondor" & "Danny"
2. Going Out
   with a Bang
3. Such a Nice Guy
4. Shondor the Apprentice Hood
5. Shondor the Brutal Killer
6. Shondor the Genial Host
7. Above the Law
8. The King & Shondor
9. Sonny Changes His Story
10. Bonds and Bullets
11. The Pretty Brunette
12. Meeting His Maker
13. Danny Greene, Champion of Labor
14. On the Waterfront
15. "The Luck
    of the Irish"
16. Bullets Can't
    Kill Danny
17. The Cop &
    the Killer
18. Bombs Away
19. Revenge from the Grave?
20. Mob War
21. "The Animal" & "The Weasel"
22. Bomb City, U.S.A.
23. "I'm Not
    Hard to Find"
24. Who Lives
    by the Bomb...
25. "The Cop &
    the Kid"
26. Coincidences
27. One Tough Prosecutor
28. "Look at That
    Weasel!"
29. The Weasel Sings
30. In "The Valachi Suite"
31. The Dominoes Topple
32. "Big Ange"
33. Telling All
34. Drugs Doom
    the Mafia
35. Bibliography