Title: Vegas Rag Doll: A True Story of Terror and Survival as a Mob Hitman's Wife
Publisher: Stephens Press LLC
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1935043560
ISBN 13: 9781935043560
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

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As a child, Wendy relished the small frontier town of Las Vegas. But as a teenager in the 1970s, Wendy's troubled home life and rebellious spirit led her to the legendary Horseshoe Club on Fremont Street, where she hooked up with Ted Binion, youngest son of notorious gambling figure Benny Binion. Her affair with the casino scion soon devolved into dalliances with high-rolling gamblers and suitcase deliveries of cash to Midwest mobsters.Binion then passed off Wendy like a trophy to Tom Hanley, a man thirty-nine years older who nonetheless drew her affections and ultimately married her. In partnership with his sadistic son, Gramby, Tom was a mob hitman. Wendy became a terrified and silent witness to his numerous crimes. Authorities say Hanley may have been responsible for more than twenty murders over three decades.Vegas Rag Doll paints a compelling portrait of the final years of organized crime in Las Vegas. In a fascinating era when legitimate facades disguised dark secrets, Wendy had a front-row seat - and a knack for survival.

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Joe Schoenmann moved to Las Vegas in 1997 to get a taste of city reporting. A multiple award winner for newspaper and magazine stories, this is his first book!

Wendy Mazaros, is a rare native Las Vegan, at the young age of 15 1/2 years old she ran away from home and fell into the arms of Ted Binion, heir-apparent of the Binion's Horseshoe Club family. She later married Tom Hanley, who was a notorious Teamsters and Culinary Union enforcer and hitman for the mob.

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