Talk:Jimmy Fratianno

Where did Jimmy Fratianno die?

Currently, this article claims that:

"In 1993, Jimmy Fratianno died in Oklahoma. An autopsy performed at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City...."

Most of this text was added in an anonymous revision claiming to be authored by the person who performed the autopsy.

The book "WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program" (published 2002) claims (near the end of chapter 13) that "...in 1993, Fratianno died alone in his sleep inside his Montana house." It is a non-fiction book, but does not list its sources, so I don't know where that information comes from.

One possible explanation for this discrepancy is that Fratianno did indeed die in Montana, but his body was transported to Oklahoma City for the autopsy, perhaps without the knowledge of the medical examiner.

Obituaries published in 1993 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times say only that he had been living "in an undisclosed U.S. city".

I don't feel certain enough in my information to edit the article, but thought this was worth mentioning. —Triskaideka 17:55, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Based on what I read, since I have an interest in Fratianno, the story in WITSEC is interesting and I think generally accurate. But there are some major factual errors. Where he refers to Frattiano as living in the Montana town of Bellingham that is completely wrong. I was a reporter in Bellingham, WA when Weasel was outed around 1990. He was living in the outskirts community of Sudden Valley...Bellingham WA address... in a house as described in the book. I think the author originally meant the tiny 'mountain' town of Bellingham, WA. So wherever it says Montana after that substitute Washington state. Of note....My wife had a friend who lived next door to Jean and Jimmy. She had no idea who they were, but they were loud and brash and fought all the time, drove a big black car. Not pleasant neighbors but they stood out as not fitting...with Jimmy's voice and speech. One day she was in her garden, the pair came home and he was livid...our friend was able to make out that his identity had been outed in a magazine he saw at the grocery store. Curious, the friend immediately went to the store and scoured Newsweek, Time and others. Nothing. On the way out, she picked up TV Guide and it had listed a show on Jimmy with an old photo. I wonder how it feels to live next to a guy with a mob contract on his head? Another time, in a restaurant I was telling a friend about the hitman in our midst. A guy at another table says..."are you two talking about Jimmy Fratianno"? I gulped and he told me stories of working with Jimmy...he was Jimmy's house remodeler. And he described the house in the book..,with all the TVs, he also said Jimmy was friendly, demanding as hell, but always paid and with cash only. I would put this as being about 1988 to '89. Then Weasel's cover was fully blown when the cops were called to his house, complaints of spousal abuse. I think Jean called them. He had been beating herand he was rude to police..they could not do nothin'to him because he was federally protected. They took him away anyway and a couple days later his photo and his whole story from mob days forward was published in the local daily newspaper. They even referenced he was in the Sudden Valley resort area. That story turned into a media feeding frenzy. I know he was in jail for awhile, but a year or two later we got an AP story thar Jimmy had died. I do not know where, but I think he was gone from Bellingham since he had been so totally exposed here. Everybody knew who he was and generally where he lived. With many Sudden Valley residents knowing exactly where he lived. I would track down the date that first story came out in the Bellingham Herald, but they are lacking an online archives and with covid there us no way for me to go in and search. But I think it broke in '90 or '91. Also, where the author speaks of the people in Montana living on the border and seeing the Brit TV crine show... again that is actually a reference to Bellingham WA. We are about 17 miles south of the border and Vancouver and Victoria BC stations boomed into the city even prior to cable...which was around back then. It is really too bad this error was made, putting him in the wrong state. It makes one Wart if the credibility of other details. I think the only other Bellingham in the USA is in Massachusetts...so an easily verifiable fact that was not checked, S. Smithereeno (talk) 01:32, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Pardon the typos. Wrote that on my tablet and it does not let me correct typos. S. Smithereeno (talk) 01:37, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

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Aladena or Aladino?

Throughout the article his name is given as "Aladena" but it is written as "Aladino" in the infobox. Where is that spelling sourced from? --Nicholas0 (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up. You'll see the new sources I added state his given name as "Aladena"; I have also cleaned up the article in general. Vaselineeeeeeee^★★★ 17:26, 28 November 2019 (UTC)